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- Title
Emergency vaccination against epidemic meningitis in Ghana: implications for the control of meningococcal disease in West Africa.
- Authors
Woods, C W; Armstrong, G; Sackey, S O; Tetteh, C; Bugri, S; Perkins, B A; Rosenstein, N E
- Abstract
Recurrent epidemics of meningococcal disease have been reported throughout the African meningitis belt since description of the disease in 1912. Meningooccal polysaccharide vaccines can effectively prevent disease but the optimum strategy for their use in this setting has been controversial. We used data from an outbreak of meningococcal disease in northern Ghana in 1997 to assess the potential effect of different vaccination strategies.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 2000, Vol 355, Issue 9197, p30
- ISSN
0140-6736
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/S0140-6736(99)03366-8