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Can we, should we, eradicate the meningococcus?

Vaccine - 30 May 2012

Maiden Martin C J, Frosch Matthias

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The eradication of infectious agents is an attractive means of disease control that, to date, has been achieved for only one human pathogen, the smallpox virus. The introduction of vaccines against Neisseria meningitidis into immunisation schedules, and particularly the conjugate polysaccharide vaccines which can interrupt transmission, raises the question of whether disease caused by this obligate human...

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PMID: 22607899
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.12.068
PMCID: PMC3366072

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