Vaccination campaign for meningococcal disease in a rural area in the Netherlands - January 1998

J. E. van Steenbergen; A. G. Kraayeveld; L Spanjaard

doi:10.2807/esm.04.02.00085-en

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Vaccination campaign for meningococcal disease in a rural area in the Netherlands - January 1998
J. E. van Steenbergen¹ , A. G. Kraayeveld² , L Spanjaard³
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Affiliations: ¹ National Coordinating Centre for Communicable Disease Outbreak Management (bureau LCI), Den Haag, the Netherlands ² District Public Health Service (GGD) Noordwest-Veluwe, Harderwijk, the Netherlands ³ Netherlands Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Meningitis (NRBM) Academic Medical Centre/RIVM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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Citation style for this article: van Steenbergen J. E., Kraayeveld A. G., Spanjaard L. Vaccination campaign for meningococcal disease in a rural area in the Netherlands - January 1998. Euro Surveill. 1999;4(2):pii=85. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.04.02.00085-en

Abstract

Neisseria meningitidis group C regularly causes epidemics in schools, universities, and army units, and in the past decade community outbreaks have been reported. Since a safe and effective polysaccharide vaccine is available the issue arises repeatedly