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WHO defeating meningitis symposium, 3rd international symposium on Streptococcus agalactiae disease (ISSAD) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: State-of-the-art overview of S. agalactiae meningitis

Oliveira, LMA; Prasad, N; Lynfield, R; Ip, M; Sanou, S; Neves, FPG; Wilder-Smith, A; Soeters, HM; Le Doare, K; Preziosi, M-P (2025) WHO defeating meningitis symposium, 3rd international symposium on Streptococcus agalactiae disease (ISSAD) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: State-of-the-art overview of S. agalactiae meningitis. VACCINE, 52. p. 126895. ISSN 0264-410X https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.126895
SGUL Authors: Le Doare, Kirsty

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Abstract

A World Health Organization (WHO) Defeating Meningitis Symposium took place as part of the 3rd International Symposium on Streptococcus agalactiae disease (ISSAD) conference which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from October 16–18, 2023. The symposium highlighted WHO's Defeating meningitis by 2030 global road map focusing on Group B Streptococcus (GBS) meningitis and provided an overview of the meningitis burden and main challenges faced to tackle the disease across the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: © 2025. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Keywords: Group B Streptococcus, Meningitis, WHO defeating meningitis by 2030 global road map
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII)
Journal or Publication Title: VACCINE
ISSN: 0264-410X
Language: en
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0
URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/117429
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.126895

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