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Consensus recommendation for meningococcal disease prevention in children and adolescents in the Middle East region
- Source :
- Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 23-30 (2012), Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, Vol 2, Iss 1 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Atlantis Press, 2012.
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Abstract
- Facing the availability of the new generation of quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccines (Menveo®, Menactra® and others pending for license) and their recent implementation in Saudi Arabia, experts from 11 countries of the Middle East region met at a “Meningococcal Leadership Forum” (MLF), which took place in May 2010 in Dubai. The participants of the conference discussed the importance of introducing the concept of conjugate vaccines – especially for children and adolescents – and elaborated a consensus recommendation to support healthcare professionals and decision makers with their expertise. In experts’ opinion, conjugate vaccines are the best choice for the prevention of meningococcal disease caused by serogroups A, C, W-135 and Y. As quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccines are registered and available in the Middle East region, they should replace plain polysaccharide vaccines and be integrated in pediatric and adolescent vaccination schedules, including infant vaccination concomitantly with basic EPI vaccines when licensed.
- Subjects :
- Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Consensus
Adolescent
education
Guidelines as Topic
Meningococcal Vaccines
Meningococcal disease
Middle East countries
Article
Disease Outbreaks
Middle East
Consensus recommendation
Infant vaccination
Medicine
Humans
Child
License
Developing Countries
Conjugate
Health Services Needs and Demand
Vaccines, Conjugate
Health professionals
business.industry
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
Infant
Invasive meningococcal disease
lcsh:RA1-1270
medicine.disease
Adolescent vaccination
Meningococcal Infections
Primary Prevention
Family medicine
Child, Preschool
Female
business
Vaccine
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22106006
- Volume :
- 2
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....25de918d5f4e4b9be78d3a32b7dd2719