Carriage rate and effects of vaccination after outbreaks of serogroup C meningococcal disease, Brazil, 2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 806-811

  Sáfadi, Marco Aurelio Palazzi ^a   Carvalhanas, Telma Regina Marques Pinto ^a,b   de Lemos, Ana Paula ^c   Gorla, Maria Cecilia Outeiro ^c   Salgado, Maristela ^c   Fukasawa, Lucila O ^c   Gonçalves, Maria Gisele ^c   Higa, Fabio ^c   Brandileone, Maria Cristina Cunto ^c   Sacchi, Claudio Tavares ^c   Ribeiro, Ana Freitas ^b   Sato, Helena Keico ^b   Bricks, Lucia Ferro ^d   de Moraes, José Cassio ^a  

^a Centro de Vigilância Epidemiológica Alexandre Vranjac ^*

^b Centro de Vigilância Epidemiológica Prof Alexandre Vranjac   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^d Sanofi Pasteur   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE; RIFAMPICIN; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SEROTYPING; VACCINATION; ADOLESCENT; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTORY; IMMUNOLOGY; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAZIL; CARRIER STATE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINES; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; RISK FACTORS; SEROTYPING; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898878542     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2005.130948     Document Type: Article

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