title: [Neisseria meningitidis: new vaccines and preventive strategies].
abstract: Invasive disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis raise concern in the population and Public Health Authority is called to propose and test strategies for optimizing resources available for its prevention. Polysaccharide vaccines started the approach to immune prophylaxis, the introduction of conjugate vaccines brought to major advances for the prevention of this disease and the future availability of a vaccine against serogroup B will provide an additional tool to protect the population.
authors.affiliation: Scuola di Specializzazione in Igiene e Medicina, Preventiva e Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata. franco@med.uniroma2.it
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Morciano
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zaratti
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Franco
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008585:Meningitis, Meningococcal / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D022401:Meningococcal Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000276:immunology; D009345:Neisseria meningitidis / Q000145:classification / Q000276:immunology; D018074:Vaccines, Conjugate / Q000008:administration & dosage
chemical_list: D022401:Meningococcal Vaccines; D018074:Vaccines, Conjugate