Efficacy in infants is important because this group has the highest risk of developing meningococcal disease. Indeed, serogroup C meningococcal conjugate vaccines have been used with great success ...

Health authorities are working to control a "major outbreak" of the potentially deadly meningococcal B disease after the third case in three weeks in Far North Queensland. Queensland Health said a ...

Results: In infants, MenACWY-CRM coadministered with ... Given the clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of meningococcal disease, vaccination has a major role in its prevention and control ...

Professor Dugdale declined to specify the ages of the infected children. There are several different strains of meningococcal bacteria, but Queensland Health said the most common cause of the ...

WA Health has reported that an adult has been diagnosed with meningococcal serogroup B disease and is recovering in hospital.Meningococcal disease is ...

MCC vaccination has had important consequences for meningococcal population biology, and carriage studies were essential in measuring these effects. The potential for herd immunity should be taken ...

Here's what bacterial meningitis is, how it's different from viral and other types of meningitis, and what treatment can be expected.

Meningococcal is an uncommon, life-threatening illness that is caused by a bacterial infection of the blood or membranes ...