funded by the Emergency Response Mechanism Operation Program of China CDC(102393220020010000017).
What is already known about this topic?From 2010 to 2012,the incidence of adverse vaccine reactions from meningococcal vaccine(MenV)in China ranged from 8.46 to 56.30 per 100,000 doses.What is added by this report?Fro...
Acute pericarditis is usually a self-limiting disorder that commonly occurs due to viral etiology or unexplained causes.Meningococcal pericarditis(MP)is a remarkably uncommon clinical entity that manifests as a compli...
Objective:This study aimed to describe,optimize and evaluate a method for preparing multivalent conjugate vaccines by simultaneous conjugation of two different bacterial capsular polysaccharides(CPs)with tetanus toxoi...
This paper has been motivated by the following biological question: how influential me desert uerosols in the transmission of meningitidis serogroup A (MenA)? A mathematical model for the dynamical transmission of Men...
AIM To evaluate the uptake of a mandatory meningococcal, a highly recommended influenza, and an optional pneumococcal vaccine, and to explore the key factors affecting vaccination rate among health care workers(HCWs) ...
Supported by Medication Safety Research Chair,Deanship of Research Chairs,King Saud University
AIM To study the uptake, barriers and motivators of influen-za, pneumococcal, meningococcal and pertussis vaccines among members of public in Arabian Gulf countries.METHODS A cross-sectional survey among the Gulf Coop...
Supported by Partly the UK Medical Research Council,No.G0701607
AIMTo compare different antibiotics for eradicating the carriage of Neisseria meningitidis (N. meningitidis ), and to investigate heterogeneity and evidence inconsistency.METHODSFrom a search of PubMed and publishe...
Neisseria meningitidis capsular polysaccharides are the main target of the protective immune response against bacterial meningitis. They are thymus-independent type 2 (TI-2) antigens that are poorly immunogenic and no...
Neisseria meningitidis is a gram negative diplococcal bacterium. Worldwide, N. meningitidis is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis and sepsis, with five serogroups (A, B, C, Y, and W-135) responsible for the maj...
The objective of the present study is to purify oligosaccharides (OSs) from serogroup B meningococci (3407 or 542852) with common lipooligosaccharide (LOS) immunotypes prevalent in China and to successtully conjugate ...