Conjugate versus polysaccharide meningococcal vaccine

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 215-

  Rashid, Harunor ^a   Booy, Robert ^a,b   Shafi, Shuja ^c   Haworth, Elizabeth ^d  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c EALING HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATE VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE;

AFRICA; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONJUGATE; CONJUGATION; DRUG EFFECT; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMAN; LETTER; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MOSLEM; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SEROTYPE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

CARRIER STATE; HUMANS; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINES; VACCINES, CONJUGATE;

EID: 40849114935     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(08)70052-5     Document Type: Letter

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