Enter B and W: two new meningococcal vaccine programmes launched
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Enter B and W: two new meningococcal vaccine programmes launched
In 2015, the UK became the first country in the world to have a comprehensive routine meningococcal vaccine programme targeting all of the main capsular groups of N. meningitidis. 1 An infant vaccine programme against meningococcal capsular group B Neisseria meningitidis (MenB) was launched from 1st September with an aim to reduce endemic MenB disease in early childhood. On 1st August 2015, an ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2015-308928