Serum Bactericidal Antibody Responses of Students Immunized With a Meningococcal Serogroup B Vaccine in Response to an Outbreak on a University Campus
Author(s) -
Eduardo Lujan,
Kathleen Winter,
Jillandra Rovaris,
Qin Liu,
Dan M. Granoff
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cix519
Subject(s) - medicine , outbreak , meningococcal disease , titer , meningococcal vaccine , confidence interval , antibody titer , virology , antibody , immunology , neisseria meningitidis , immunization , biology , bacteria , genetics
MenB-4C is a recently licensed meningococcal serogroup B vaccine. For vaccine licensure, short-term efficacy was inferred from serum bactericidal antibody (SBA) titers against 3 antigen-specific indicator strains, which are not necessarily representative of US disease-causing strains.
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