Bacterial Meningitis Vaccine
Genome-based vaccine discovery evaluated against meningococcal B strains
Published in Vaccine Weekly, June 28th, 2006
According to a recent report from the United States, "Although significant advances have been made toward the control of bacterial meningitis in children with the development of capsular polysaccharide protein conjugate vaccines, this approach has proven problematic for the serogroup B meningococcus."
"Noncapsular vaccines based upon outer membrane vesicles of Neisseria meningitidis have been useful in control of clonal serogroup B outbreaks, although due to variability of PorA, these vaccines may be less useful in control of endemic disease," said L. Danzig and...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2006-06-28)
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