Meningococcal Disease

 

MMWR Articles ACIP Recommendations for meningococcal disease and college students. MMWR Vol 49 Serogroup W-135 Meningococcal Disease Among Travelers Returning From Saudi Arabia --- United States, 2000 MMWR Vol. 49 CDC. Meningococcal Disease -- New England, 1993 - 1998. MMWR Vol 48:629-33 (7/30/99) CDC. Change in Recommendation for Meningococcal Vaccine for Travelers MMWR Vol 48, No 05;104. (2/12/99) CDC. Lab-Based Surveillance for Meningococcal Disease -- U.S., 1989-91 MMWR Vol 42 (SS-2):21-30 (6/4/93) Control and Prevention of Meningococcal Disease and Control and Prevention of Serogroup C Meningococcal Disease: Evaluation and Management of Suspected Outbreaks MMWR Recommendations and Reports February 14, 1997 /vol.46 /No. RR-5 Serogroup Y Meningococcal Disease - U.S. 1989-1996 MMWR Vol. 45 / No. 46, p. 1010-1013 Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease - Oregon, 1994 MMWR Vol. 44 / No. 7, p. 121-124 Links AAP recommendations for control of meningococcal disease. CDC's Active Bacterial Core Surveillance (ABCs) ACIP recommendations American College Health Association Case Definitions for InfectiousConditions Under Public Health Surveillance Data for Decision Making--Technical Guidelines and instructional materials for Detection and Control of Epidemic Meningoccocal Meningitis, Yellow Fever and Cholera Guidelines for travelers http://www.cdc.gov/travel http://www.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbk99.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/travel/saudimenin.htm Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) Recommendations for meningococcal disease and airplanes http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5023a2.htm Laboratory Methods for the Diagnosis of Meningitis - Manual Meningitis and Special Pathogens Branch - CDC Prevention strategies for immunizations for vaccine- preventable diseases, isolation precautions to prevent exposures to infectious agents, management of health care personnel exposure to infected persons. United Kingdom health Education Authority site for Conjugate Mening C campaign http://www.hea.org.uk/campaigns/immunisation/mindex.html http://www.doh.gov.uk/meningitis-vaccine/ Vaccine Information - Menigococcal Disease Vaccine Information Sheet [.pdf] Vaccine safety from NIP WHO website that includes link to get the Control of epidemic meningococcal disease. References Rosenstein N, Perkins B, Stephens D, Popovic T, Hughes J. Meningococcal disease. NEJM 2001; 344: 1378-1388. Sacchi C, Whitney A, Popovic T, et al. Diversity and prevalence of PorA types in Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B in the United States, 1992-1998. J Infect Dis 2000; 182: 1169-1176. CDC. Meningococcal vaccine and college students: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. MMWR 2000; 49 (RR-7): 11-20. Campagne G, Schuchat A, Djibo S, Ousseini A, Cisse L, Chippaux J. Epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in Niamey, Niger, 1981-96. Bull World Health Organ 1999; 77: 499-508. CDC. Control and prevention of serogroup C meningococcal disease: evaluation and management of suspected outbreaks: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR 1997; 46 (No. RR-05): 1-21. Mothershed EA, Sacchi CT, Whitney AM, et al. Use of real-time PCR to resolve slide agglutination discrepancies in serogroup identification of Neisseria meningitis. J Clin Microbiol 2004 (Jan).

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