• Aust Prescr · Aug 2019

    Review

    Meningococcal vaccines in Australia: a 2019 update.

    • Ketaki Sharma, Clayton Chiu, and Nicholas Wood.
    • National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney.
    • Aust Prescr. 2019 Aug 1; 42 (4): 131-135.

    Invasive Meningococcal Disease Is A Rare But Serious Infection Caused By Neisseria MeningitidisSerogroup B Was The Predominant Serogroup Causing Invasive Meningococcal Disease In Australia Until 2015 Serogroup W Disease Has Increased Substantially Since 2014 And In 2017 Serogroups B And W Caused Similar Numbers Of Invasive Disease CasesVaccines Against Serogroups A C W Y And B Are Available For Anyone Who Wishes To Reduce The Risk Of Meningococcal DiseaseVaccination Is Strongly Recommended For People In High Risk Age Or Population Groups These Are Children Under 2 Years 15–19 Year Olds Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Children And People With Medical Occupational Behavioural Or Travel Related Risk Factors For Invasive Meningococcal DiseaseMeningococcal Acwy Vaccine Is Funded Under The National Immunisation Program For Babies Aged 12 Months Since April 2019 It Has Been Funded For Year 10 Students Through A School Program There Are Additional State And Territory Based Programs For Both Meningococcal Acwy And Meningococcal B Vaccines

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…