Serogroup c
Meningococcal disease serogroup C
... disease serogroup C (MDC) remains a serious threat to global health, particularly in countries in North and Latin America, Europe, and ...meningococcal C polysaccharide vaccines are considered safe, ...
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Kinetics of Antibody Persistence following Administration of a Combination Meningococcal Serogroup C and Haemophilus influenzae Type b Conjugate Vaccine in Healthy Infants in the United Kingdom Primed with a Monovalent Meningococcal Serogroup C Vaccine
... meningococcal serogroup C antibody by the serum bactericidal antibody (SBA) assay, as described previously ...ningococcal serogroup C bactericidal ...meningococcal serogroup C ...
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Multicenter comparison of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C anti capsular polysaccharide antibody levels measured by a standardized enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
... A standardized enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ELISA was used by 11 laboratories to measure levels of total serum antibody to Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C capsular polysaccharide[r] ...
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Emergence of a new clone of serogroup C Neisseria meningitidis in São Paulo, Brazil
... Serogroup C isolates of Neisseria meningitidis recovered from 121 patients with meningitis or septicemia in Greater Sao Paulo, Brazil, between 1976 and 1990 were analyzed with respect to[r] ...
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Is a single dose of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine sufficient for protection? experience from the Netherlands
... against serogroup C meningococci compared to younger children ...meningococcal serogroup C vaccines, for long-term protection SBA levels alone may not be ideal ...to serogroup C ...
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Genotyping of outbreak related and sporadic isolates of Clostridium difficile belonging to serogroup C
... The C. difficile reference strains of the 10 serogroups (A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I, K, and X) and a total of 56 toxigenic ...to serogroup C were ...toxigenic, serogroup C ...
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Evidence of a Functional B-Cell Immunodeficiency in Adults Who Experience Serogroup C Meningococcal Disease
... Patients and controls. Patients were recruited from among those who pre- sented to the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust with microbiologically proven meningococcal serogroup C (Men C) disease. ...
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Relationship between Serum Bactericidal Activity and Serogroup-Specific Immunoglobulin G Concentration for Adults, Toddlers, and Infants Immunized with Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup C Vaccines
... Meningococcal serogroup C (MnC)-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies in pre- and postimmunization sera obtained from healthy ...(SBA). Serogroup-specific IgG antibody (micrograms per ...
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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
... This study was conducted among adults, since it was the first time this vaccine combination (given in one syringe) was tested. Since the licensed vaccine Menjugate is widely used and approximately 180,000 subjects have ...
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Seroprevalence of Antibodies against Serogroup C Meningococci in England in the Postvaccination Era
... meningococcal serogroup C conjugate (MCC) vaccination, in 1999, incorporating MCC vaccines into the routine infant im- munization schedule at 2, 3, and 4 months of age and imple- menting an extensive ...
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Emergence of serogroup C meningococcal disease associated with a high mortality rate in Hefei, China
... of serogroup W-135 disease during the 2000 Hajj in Mecca, Saudi ...the serogroup C clone from Hefei and the rest of Anhui Province were found to belong to ST-4821, a unique clone of serogroup ...
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Maintenance of Immune Response throughout Childhood following Serogroup C Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccination in Early Childhood
... are serogroup C (14); however, this may underestimate the proportion of young people who are exposed to the organ- ism due to rapid transmission, short duration of carriage, and reacquisition over ...
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Meningococcal carriage, alcohol consumption, and campus bar patronage in a serogroup C meningococcal disease outbreak
... Community outbreaks of serogroup C invasive meningococcal disease are increasing in North America (L. H. Harrison, JAMA 273:419–421, 1995; L. A. Jackson, A. Schuchat, M. W. Reeves, and J. D. Wenger, JAMA ...
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Salmonella Serogroup C: Current Status of Vaccines and Why They Are Needed
... States serogroup C is one of the most prevalent sero- groups and was the most common serogroup in 2012 ...gets serogroup C Salmonella along with ...group C, cross-protection ...
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Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial of Coadministration of RotaTeq, a Pentavalent Rotavirus Vaccine, and NeisVac-C, a Meningococcal Serogroup C Conjugate Vaccine
... Meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine (MenCC) was not used routinely in the countries in which the initial studies with RotaTeq were undertaken; consequently, the concomitant administration of RotaTeq ...
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Functional T-Cell Deficiency in Adolescents Who Experience Serogroup C Meningococcal Disease despite Receiving the Meningococcal Serogroup C Conjugate Vaccine
... of serogroup C disease have lower B-cell proliferation in response to ␣ - ␦ -dex stimulation than those of healthy controls but no defect in T-cell help ...
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Serogroup C meningococci in Italy in the era of conjugate menC vaccination
... group C Neisseria meningitidis reported to the National Surveillance System at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità fell progressively from 54% (115/212) in 2005 to 36% (53/ 146) in 2008 ...to serogroup ...
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Characterization of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and ribosomal DNA restriction profiles (ribotyping)
... We compared multilocus enzyme electrophoresis MEE and ribosomal DNA fingerprinting ribotyping for subtyping 44 strains of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C that were isolated in Los Ang[r] ...
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Immunologic Hyporesponsiveness to Serogroup C but Not Serogroup A following Repeated Meningococcal A/C Polysaccharide Vaccination in Saudi Arabia
... (serogroup C) were determined as described previously (30) by using baby rabbit serum (Pel- Freeze Incorporated, Rodgerson, ...for serogroup C and 90 min for serogroup ...for ...
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Kinetics of Meningococcal Serogroup C-Specific Functional Antibody Levels Up to 15 Years after a Single Immunization with a Meningococcal Serogroup C Conjugate Vaccine during Adolescence
... ABSTRACT Adolescent vaccination is now considered the key factor for offering di- rect protection against meningococcal disease but also for reducing carriage and transmission and, in this way, establishing herd ...
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