Routinely vaccinating adolescents against meningococcus: targeting transmission & disease
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- DOI: 10.1586/14760584.2016.1130628
Routinely vaccinating adolescents against meningococcus: targeting transmission & disease
Abstract
Adolescents have the highest rates of meningococcal carriage and transmission. Interrupting the adolescent habitat in order to reduce carriage and transmission within adolescents and to other age groups could help to control meningococcal disease at a population level. Compared to immunization strategies restricted to young children, a strategy focused on adolescents may have more profound and long-lasting indirect impacts, and may be more cost effective. Despite challenges in reaching this age-group, experience with other vaccines show that high vaccine coverage of adolescents is attainable.
Keywords: Neisseria meningitidis; adolescent; carriage; cost-effectiveness; epidemiology; herd protection; transmission; vaccine.
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