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Enter B and W: two new meningococcal vaccine programmes launched.

Ladhani, SN; Ramsay, M; Borrow, R; Riordan, A; Watson, JM; Pollard, AJ (2016) Enter B and W: two new meningococcal vaccine programmes launched. Arch Dis Child, 101 (1). pp. 91-95. ISSN 1468-2044 https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-308928
SGUL Authors: Ladhani, Shamez Nizarali

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Abstract

In 2015, the UK became the first country in the world to have a comprehensive routine meningococcal vaccine programme targeting all of the main capsular groups of N. meningitidis. 1 An infant vaccine programme against meningococcal capsular group B Neisseria meningitidis (MenB) was launched from 1st September with an aim to reduce endemic MenB disease in early childhood. On 1st August 2015, an adolescent programme against groups A, C, W and Y meningococci (MenACWY) was rolled out to halt a growing outbreak of capsular group W disease (MenW) caused by a hypervirulent clone of N. meningitidis, in addition to maintaining control against MenC disease provided by the current adolescent programme. 2.

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Keywords: Immunisation, Infectious Diseases, Adolescent, Age Distribution, Child, Child, Preschool, England, Great Britain, Humans, Immunization Programs, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Meningococcal Infections, Meningococcal Vaccines, Vaccines, Conjugate, Young Adult, Humans, Meningococcal Infections, Meningococcal Vaccines, Vaccines, Conjugate, Age Distribution, Adolescent, Child, Child, Preschool, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Immunization Programs, Great Britain, England, Young Adult, Pediatrics, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1114 Paediatrics And Reproductive Medicine, 1117 Public Health And Health Services
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII)
Journal or Publication Title: Arch Dis Child
ISSN: 1468-2044
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
1 January 2016Published
14 December 2015Published Online
23 October 2015Accepted
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0
PubMed ID: 26672098
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/107996
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-308928

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