Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Brazil: a literature review

Invasive meningococcal disease in childhood.

Need for Optimisation of Immunisation Strategies Targeting Invasive Meningococcal Disease in the Netherlands

Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is a severe bacterial infectious disease with high mortality and morbidity rates worldwide. In recent years, industrialised countries have implemented vaccines targeting IMD in their National Immunisation Programmes (NIPs). In 2002, the Netherlands successfully implemented a single dose of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine at the age of 14 months a...

Surveillance of Invasive Meningococcal Disease

Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is a nationally reportable disease in Canada. Since 1985, the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC) has enhanced IMD surveillance to correlate case-by-case information provided by the provinces and territories with detailed laboratory studies done at the National Laboratory for Bacteriology at LCDC. This report provides information on IMD from 1 Janua...

Underestimation of Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Italy.

Knowing the incidence of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is essential for planning appropriate vaccination policies. However, IMD may be underestimated because of misdiagnosis or insufficiently sensitive laboratory methods. Using a national molecular surveillance register, we assessed the number of cases misdiagnosed and diagnoses obtained postmortem with real-time PCR (rPCR), and we compa...

REVIEW ARTICLE Global Meningococcal Initiative: guidelines for diagnosis and confirmation of invasive meningococcal disease

J. A. VÁZQUEZ*†, M. K. TAHA†, J. FINDLOW†, S. GUPTA AND R. BORROW National Reference Laboratory for Meningococci, Institute of Health Carlos III, Majadahonda Spain 2 Institut Pasteur, Invasive Bacterial Infections Unit and National Reference Centre for Meningococci, Paris, France Vaccine Evaluation Unit, Public Health England, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK Department of Microbiolog...