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The lack of an anti-capsular vaccine against serogroup B meningococcal disease has necessitated the exploration of alternative vaccine candidates, mostly proteins exhibiting varying degrees of antigenic variation. Analysis of variants of antigen-encoding genes is facilitated by publicly accessible online sequence repositories, such as the PubMLST database and the associated Meningitis Research Foundation Meningococcus Genome Library (MRF-MGL). We investigated six proposed meningococcal vaccine formulations by deducing the prevalence of their components in the isolates represented in these repositories. Despite high diversity, a limited number of antigenic variants of each of the vaccine antigens were prevalent, with strong associations of particular variant combinations with given serogroups and genotypes. In the MRF-MGL and globally, the highest levels of identical sequences were observed with multicomponent/multivariant vaccines. Our analyses further demonstrated that certain combinations of antigen variants were prevalent over periods of decades in widely differing locations, indicating that vaccine formulations containing a judicious choice of antigen variants have potential for long-term protection across geographic regions. The data further indicated that formulations with multiple variants would be especially relevant at times of low disease incidence, as relative diversity was higher. Continued surveillance is required to monitor the changing prevalence of these vaccine antigens.

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Meningococcal vaccine antigen diversity in global databases
<p class="citation"> <span>Citation style for this article:</span> <span class="meta-value authors"> <a href="/search?value1=Carina+Brehony&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Brehony Carina</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Dorothea+M+Hill&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Hill Dorothea M</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Jay+Lucidarme&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Lucidarme Jay</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Ray+Borrow&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Borrow Ray</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Martin+C+Maiden&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Maiden Martin C</a></span>. Meningococcal vaccine antigen diversity in global databases. <a href="/content/ecdc">Euro Surveill.</a> 2015;20(49):pii=30084. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.49.30084" title="doi link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.49.30084</a> <span class="ES_Article_citation"> <span class="generated">Received</span>: 20 Mar 2015;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="generated">Accepted</span>: 09 Jul 2015 </span> </p>
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