[PDF] Top 20 Effectiveness of Meningococcal C conjugate vaccine in Salvador, Brazil: a case-control study.

... introduce meningococcal C conjugate vac- cines and a number of vaccine effectiveness evaluations were conducted, including a case-con- trol study that reported ... See full document

... The study, part of a Latin American multicenter hospital-based case- control study, was conducted in São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil, between November 1998 and March 2002 ... See full document

... Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo (IMTSP - USP) became aware of a cluster of acute toxoplasmosis cases in an industrial plant located in the mesoregion of ... See full document

... The study was conducted at the Hospital de Pediatria da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, Rio Grande do Norte) and the Hospital Universitário Materno- Infantil (São Luiz, ...years of age ... See full document

... duration of its use), presence of a central venous catheter, use of parenteral nutritional support, and chronic renal failure ...number of some of these conditions in our sample ... See full document

... prevalence of human parvovirus B19V (B19V) in bone marrow (BM) samples from 120 cases with cytopenias of unknown etiology was compared with that in samples from 45 BM donors (control ... See full document

... auscultation of at least 1 ...measurements of the left ventricle (LV) were obtained in accordance with the recommenda- tions of the American Society of ...evaluation of the LV ... See full document

... availability of effective treatments, are not fully understood and recent studies have highlighted the possibility of involved Mycobacterium leprae ambi- ent ...development of the disease among ... See full document

... seven study sites who actively participat- ed in the ...name of the Réseau des GROG net- work); Sylvie van der Werf, Bruno Lina, Martine Valette, Vincent Enouf, Sylvie Béhillil, National Reference ... See full document

... participated in the survey reported in this article as well as the Secretaria Estadual de Educac¸ão da Bahia, the Secretaria Municipal de Educac¸ão de Salvador, and the school directors for their ... See full document

... Barret, C Rizzo, B Nunes, D Pitigoi, AL Ca´mara, A Mosnier, JK Horvath, J O Donnell, A Bella, R Guiomar, E Lupulescu, C Savulescu, BC Ciancio, P Kramarz, A ...Barret, C Rizzo, B Nunes, D Pitigoi, AL ... See full document

... objective in Brazil was to directly im- munise children aged < 2 years, specifically unweaned infants, as this age group has the highest at risk of me- ningococcal disease in the ...tries, ... See full document

... Members of the I-MOVE case–control studies team ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden: BC Ciancio, P Kramarz, A Nicoll; EpiConcept, Paris, France: E Kissling, A Moren, C Savulescu, M Valenciano; France: JM ... See full document

... engaged in conducting I-MOVE project; Portugal: Ausenda Machado, Inês Batista, Carlos Matias Dias, José Marinho Falcão (retired), Department of Epidemiology, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr Ricardo Jorge, ... See full document

... objectives of the present study were to investigate the clinical and laboratory features of meningococcal disease in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the overlap ... See full document

... This study aimed to describe the clinical, epidemiological and microbiological fea- tures of meningococcal meningitis in Salvador, ...cases of culture-positive meningo- coccal ... See full document

... Institute of Research – Development for Microbiology and Immunology; Daniela Pitigoi Cantacuzino Institute, National Institute of Research – Development for Microbiology and Immunology and Universitatea de ... See full document

... objective in Brazil was to directly im- munise children aged < 2 years, specifically unweaned infants, as this age group has the highest at risk of me- ningococcal disease in the ...tries, ... See full document

... vaccination of about 30% of the Portuguese population, aiming at protecting not only the most vulnerable citizens, like pregnant women and chronically ill patients, but also to protect those in ... See full document

... limitations of this study must be ...occurring in the first days after ...indicators of HIV in the adult population aged 15–49 years (HIV prevalence rate ...criteria of known or ... See full document