Meningococcal carriage, meningococcal disease and vaccination. Hassan-King, M. K., Wall, R. A., & Greenwood, B. M. The Journal of Infection, 16(1):55–59, January, 1988. abstract bibtex Group A meningococcal carriage rates were determined 6 months before and 6 and 18 months after a mass vaccination campaign with a combined group A and group C meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine in a rural area of The Gambia. During the first pre-vaccination survey, performed during an outbreak of meningococcal disease, the carriage rate was high (16%). The carriage rate remained high during a second survey made 6 months after a vaccination campaign that covered approximately 90% of the study population. A year later very few group A meningococcal carriers were found. Membrane protein patterns of isolates obtained before and after vaccination were similar. We conclude that vaccination had little influence on the carriage rate of group A meningococci but that this was influenced by changes in herd immunity or by other unidentified factors.
@article{hassan-king_meningococcal_1988,
title = {Meningococcal carriage, meningococcal disease and vaccination},
volume = {16},
issn = {0163-4453},
abstract = {Group A meningococcal carriage rates were determined 6 months before and 6 and 18 months after a mass vaccination campaign with a combined group A and group C meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine in a rural area of The Gambia. During the first pre-vaccination survey, performed during an outbreak of meningococcal disease, the carriage rate was high (16\%). The carriage rate remained high during a second survey made 6 months after a vaccination campaign that covered approximately 90\% of the study population. A year later very few group A meningococcal carriers were found. Membrane protein patterns of isolates obtained before and after vaccination were similar. We conclude that vaccination had little influence on the carriage rate of group A meningococci but that this was influenced by changes in herd immunity or by other unidentified factors.},
language = {eng},
number = {1},
journal = {The Journal of Infection},
author = {Hassan-King, M. K. and Wall, R. A. and Greenwood, B. M.},
month = jan,
year = {1988},
pmid = {3130424},
pages = {55--59},
}
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