Open AccessIs there a need for a public vaccine production capacity at European level?
Author(s) -
Daniel Lévy-Brühl
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
euro surveillance/eurosurveillance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.766
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1560-7917
pISSN - 1025-496X
DOI - 10.2807/esm.11.07.00634-en
Subject(s) - outbreak , phenotype , public health , virology , medicine , geography , biology , genetics , gene , pathology
In this issue of Eurosurveillance, Rouaud et al report a protracted outbreak of meningococcal B invasive diseases (BMD) in the northern French department of Seine-Maritime, linked to the local expansion of a clonal strain of B:14:P1.7,16 phenotype, belonging to the ST32/ET5 clonal complex.