Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Mathew Diggle Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 296 ISBN: 9783838373799
Описание
This book offers an insight into the epidemiology of meningococci causing invasive disease in Scotland during 1999 to 2002 using high profile and high impact molecular characterisation tools such as Multi Locus Sequence Typing (MLST) and porA genosubtyping. It provides valuable data highlighting the effect the Meningococcal group C conjugate vaccine (MenC) has on serogroup C disease and its decline over the length of the vaccination campaign. At the same time, the overall number of cases has been monitored including the effect on serogroup B between 1999 and 2002. A decrease in serogroup C disease was observed, but it remains to be seen if this is accompanied by either an increase in serogroup B disease or resurgence of serogroup C disease over a longer period. This body of work show’s that molecular characterisation tools are extremely important for the surveillance of meningococcal disease over a period of years and, and that this evidence, has been effective not...
