The Diversity of Meningococcal Carriage Across the African Meningitis Belt and the Impact of Vaccination With a Group A ...
Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
Changes in Serogroup and Genotype Prevalence Among Carried Meningococci in the United Kingdom During Vaccine Implementat...
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Impact of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccines on carriage and herd immunity.
...Published in The Journal of infectious diseases
In 1999, meningococcal serogroup C conjugate (MCC) vaccines were introduced in the United Kingdom for those under 19 years of age. The impact of this intervention on asymptomatic carriage of meningococci was investigated to establish whether serogroup replacement or protection by herd immunity occurred. Multicenter surveys of carriage were conducte...
