The Changing Epidemiology of Meningococcal Disease.

Abstract:

:The incidence of meningococcal disease is at an historic low in the United States, but prevention remains a priority because of the devastating outcomes and risk for outbreaks. Available vaccines are recommended routinely for persons at increased risk for disease to protect against all major serogroups of Neisseria meningitidis circulating in the United States. Although vaccination has virtually eliminated serogroup A meningococcal outbreaks from the Meningitis Belt of Africa and reduced the incidence of serogroup C disease worldwide, eradication of N meningitidis will unlikely be achieved by currently available vaccines because of the continued carriage and transmission of nonencapsulated organisms.

authors

Cohn A,MacNeil J

doi

10.1016/j.idc.2015.08.002

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-12-01 00:00:00

pages

667-77

issue

4

eissn

0891-5520

issn

1557-9824

pii

S0891-5520(15)00084-7

journal_volume

29

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