[HTML][HTML] The everchanging epidemiology of meningococcal disease worldwide and the potential for prevention through vaccination

SR Parikh, H Campbell, JA Bettinger, LH Harrison… - Journal of Infection, 2020 - Elsevier
Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of bacterial meningitis and septicaemia worldwide
and is associated with high case fatality rates and serious life-long complications among …

The changing and dynamic epidemiology of meningococcal disease

SA Halperin, JA Bettinger, B Greenwood, LH Harrison… - Vaccine, 2012 - Elsevier
The epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease continues to change rapidly, even in
the three years since the first Meningococcal Exchange Meeting in 2008. Control of disease …

Properties and clinical performance of vaccines containing outer membrane vesicles from Neisseria meningitidis

J Holst, D Martin, R Arnold, CC Huergo, P Oster… - Vaccine, 2009 - Elsevier
Meningococcal outer membrane proteins have been used for over 20 years in more than 80
million doses; either as carrier protein in a Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) …

The development of a vaccine against meningococcus B using reverse vaccinology

V Masignani, M Pizza, ER Moxon - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The discovery of vaccine antigens through whole genome sequencing (WGS) contrasts with
the classical hypothesis-driven laboratory-based analysis of microbes to identify …

Vaccines against meningococcal serogroup B disease containing outer membrane vesicles (OMV): lessons from past programs and implications for the future

J Holst, P Oster, R Arnold, M Tatley… - Human vaccines & …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The utility of wild-type outer membrane vesicle (wtOMV) vaccines against serogroup B
(MenB) meningococcal disease has been explored since the 1970s. Public health …

[HTML][HTML] Surveillance and control of meningococcal disease in the COVID-19 era: A Global Meningococcal Initiative review

MR Alderson, PD Arkwright, X Bai, S Black, R Borrow… - Journal of Infection, 2022 - Elsevier
This review article incorporates information from the 4th Global Meningococcal Initiative
summit meeting. Since the introduction of stringent COVID-19 infection control and lockdown …

Multicenter, open-label, randomized phase II controlled trial of an investigational recombinant meningococcal serogroup B vaccine with and without outer membrane …

J Findlow, R Borrow, MD Snape… - Clinical infectious …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background. In the absence of an efficacious broadly protective vaccine, serogroup B
Neisseria meningitidis (MenB) is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis and septicemia in …

Review of meningococcal group B vaccines

DM Granoff - Clinical infectious diseases, 2010 - academic.oup.com
No broadly effective vaccines are available for prevention of group B meningococcal
disease, which accounts for> 50% of all cases. The group B capsule is an autoantigen and …

Bactericidal antibody is the immunologic surrogate of protection against meningococcal disease

CE Frasch, R Borrow, J Donnelly - Vaccine, 2009 - Elsevier
It has been demonstrated that antibodies induced by meningococcal polysaccharide,
polysaccharide-protein conjugates and outer membrane protein vaccines protect against …

Immunogenicity of two investigational serogroup B meningococcal vaccines in the first year of life: a randomized comparative trial

MD Snape, T Dawson, P Oster, A Evans… - The Pediatric …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Background: An investigational vaccine against serogroup B meningococcal (MenB)
disease containing 3 main recombinant proteins (factor H-binding protein, Neisserial …