1. An overview of meningococcal disease in India: Knowledge gaps and potential solutions
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Ashok Kumar Dutta, Ray Borrow, T. Jacob John, A.J. Chitkara, and Sunil Gupta
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Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,India ,Meningococcal Vaccines ,Meningococcal vaccine ,medicine.disease_cause ,Meningococcal disease ,Disease Outbreaks ,Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup A ,Conjugate vaccine ,Environmental health ,Epidemiology ,medicine ,Humans ,Child ,Quality of Health Care ,Vaccines, Conjugate ,General Veterinary ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,business.industry ,Incidence ,Neisseria meningitidis ,Public health ,Vaccination ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Outbreak ,medicine.disease ,Meningococcal Infections ,Infectious Diseases ,Child, Preschool ,Molecular Medicine ,business - Abstract
The Global Meningococcal Initiative (GMI) consists of an international group of scientists and clinicians, with expertise in meningococcal immunology, epidemiology, public health and vaccinology that aims to prevent meningococcal disease worldwide through education, research, cooperation and vaccination. In India, there is no national policy on routine meningococcal vaccination to control the disease. The GMI convened a meeting in India, with local medical leaders and public policy personnel, to gain insight into meningococcal disease burden and current surveillance and vaccination practices in the country. Neisseria meningitidis is the third most common cause of sporadic bacterial meningitis in children
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- 2013
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