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<p>Meningococcal Group B Vaccine For The Prevention Of Invasive Meningococcal Disease Caused By <em>Neisseria meningitidis</em> Serogroup B</p>
... Although conjugated polysaccharide vaccines seem to work for other serogroups (A, C, Y, W), this has not been the case for serogroup B. A polysaccharide-based vaccine was disregarded for two major reasons, ...
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First Use of a Serogroup B Meningococcal Vaccine in the US in Response to a University Outbreak
... The sequence type of the bacterial strain isolated in this outbreak, ST-409, is uncommon in the United States. Aside from the samples received from this outbreak, CDC has received only 9 (0.25%) serogroup B ...
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Genetic Similarity of Gonococcal Homologs to Meningococcal Outer Membrane Proteins of Serogroup B Vaccine
... ABSTRACT The human pathogens Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis share high genome identity. Retrospective analysis of surveillance data from New Zealand indicates the potential cross-protective effect of ...
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Combined Administration of Meningococcal Serogroup B Outer Membrane Vesicle Vaccine and Conjugated Serogroup C Vaccine Indicated for Prevention of Meningococcal Disease Is Safe and Immunogenic
... temic serogroup B disease and serogroup C disease have con- stituted a health problem in many industrialized countries dur- ing the last 50 years, with epidemics in, ...by serogroup B ...
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Development of a DNA Aptamer for Screening Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B by Cell SELEX
... meningitidis serogroup B were identified by whole-cell Systemic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential Enrichment ...meningitidis serogroup B and no affinity to ...
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Meningococcal Serogroup B Vaccine Immunogenicity in High-Risk Groups: What Are the Implications?
... invasive serogroup B meningococcal disease occurring in patients receiving eculizumab despite being immunized with meningococcal conjugate vaccine directed against serogroups A, C, Y, and W-135 or a ...
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Epidemiology of serogroup B invasive meningococcal disease in Ontario, Canada, 2000 to 2010
... of serogroup C has decreased serogroup B has accounted for a greater proportion of IMD cases and has become the most prevalent cause of IMD in ...of serogroup B IMD coincides with the ...
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Characterization of murine monoclonal antibodies against serogroup B salmonellae and application as serotyping reagents
... Serotyping of salmonella strains by the slide agglutination method with two of the serogroup B-specific monoclonal antibodies demonstrated their usefulness as serotyping reagents for the[r] ...
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Standardization of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B Colorimetric Serum Bactericida Assay
... of serogroup B polysaccharide bactericidal activity between human complement and rabbit complement may be due to IgM antibody, since it appeared that there was no difference in activity between complement ...
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Antibody responses to the capsular polysaccharide of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B in patients with meningococcal disease.
... meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) polysaccharide (PS) by enzyme- linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in sera from 94 patients from The Netherlands with disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis group ...by ...
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Molecular Epidemiology of Recent Belgian Isolates of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B
... One serogroup C strain also had pattern ...of serogroup B and C were already demonstrated in 1986 (6), and recently, Swartley and coworkers (26) have shown that two meningococcal isolates of the same ...
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Heterogeneity of tbpB, the transferrin-binding protein B gene, among serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis strains of the ET-5 complex.
... To determine whether this type of TbpB protein was widely represented among ET-5 complex strains, we designed a set of primers on the basis of a multialignment of the first 1,000 nt of tbpB genes from strain 8680, from ...
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Distinct evolutionary patterns of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B disease outbreaks at two universities in the USA
... meningitidis serogroup B (MnB) was responsible for two independent meningococcal disease outbreaks at universities in the USA during ...University B in California, with four confirmed cases during ...
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Serovar D and E of serogroup B induce highest serological responses in urogenital Chlamydia trachomatisinfections
... We observed higher serological responses in women compared to men for all serovars, but this did not reach statistical significance. Eighty-two samples from Study 1 were unique compared to the previous study after ...
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Immunogenicity and Safety of a Combination of Two Serogroup B Meningococcal Outer Membrane Vesicle Vaccines
... when different strains are circulating. These two vaccines will cover the most commonly occurring serogroup B strains in many European countries (17, 29). The results from the pri- mary immunizations showed ...
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Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Québec, Canada, Due to an Emerging Clone of ST 269 Serogroup B Meningococci with Serotype Antigen 17 and Serosubtype Antigen P1 19 (B:17:P1 19)
... related to the culture-positive cases, we resorted to DNA se- quencing of the porB and porA genes, which are responsible for synthesis of the class 2/3 PorB and class 1 PorA outer mem- brane proteins that bear serotype ...
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Recommendations for Serogroup B Meningococcal Vaccine for Persons 10 Years and Older
... (A, B, C, W, X, and Y) are responsible for invasive human ...type b conjugate vaccine (MenHibrix; GlaxoSmithKline; Brentford, United Kingdom), and a quadrivalent meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine ...
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Understanding the Category B Recommendation for Serogroup B Meningococcal Vaccine
... of serogroup B meningococcal vaccines in persons aged ≥10 years at increased risk for serogroup B meningococcal disease: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, ...
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Invasive Serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis in Québec, Canada, 2003 to 2010: Persistence of the ST 269 Clone Since It First Emerged in 2003
... of serogroup B IMD cases due to highly related iso- lates belonging to the ST-269 ...of serogroup B strains involved clones or CCs such as ET-5 or ST-32 ...group B IMD cases due to the ...
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Adoption of Serogroup B Meningococcal Vaccine Recommendations
... Our data reveal a lack of familiarity with many aspects of the MenB disease and the MenB vaccine among primary care providers. For example, the incidence of the MenB disease, the vaccines’ effectiveness, and the duration ...
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