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Meningococci

Administration of Meningococcal Vaccine With Other Routine Infant Vaccines Appears Effective

Administration of routine infant immunizations with a vaccine for serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis, a bacterium that is a cause of serious disease such as sepsis and meningitis, was effective against meningococcal strains and produced minimal interference with the ...More
February 8, 2012
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Children's Hospital Receives $1 Million Gift to Develop Meningococcal Vaccines

Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland announced today a $1 million gift from the Clorox Company to support research with an aim of developing a vaccine against meningococcal disease – a potentially deadly bacterial infection that affects millions of children and ...More
June 1, 2011
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Scientists Discover Key to Effective Meningitis Vaccine

A study conducted by Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland and University of Massachusetts Medical Center scientists identifies a new mutant vaccine antigen for Neisseria meningitidis (also called meningococcus) that has the potential to improve vaccine ...More
March 9, 2011
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Extra ED Surveillance Doesn't Benefit Conventional Surveillance for Meningococcal Infection

Researchers in New South Wales, Australia report in the latest issue of BMC Infectious Diseases that use of an emergency department (ED) surveillance system to augment conventional surveillance of meningococcal infection did not demonstrate a benefit. O'Toole and colleagues ...More
November 3, 2010
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