Vaccine failure after Meningococcal C conjugate vaccine may be linked to decline of bactericidal titers and absence of herd immunity.

Rania Matar (1) , Eva Hong (2) , Corinne Levy (3, 4, 5) , Marcel Guillot (6) , Robert Cohen (3, 4, 7) , Muhamed-Kheir Taha (2) , Fouad Madhi (8, 3)

1 Service de pédiatrie générale [CHIC]
2 CNR - Centre National de Référence des Méningocoques et Haemophilus influenzae - National Reference Center Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae
3 GPIP - Groupe de Pathologie Infectieuse Pédiatrique [Paris]
4 ACTIV - Association Clinique et Thérapeutique Infantile du Val de Marne
5 CRC - Centre de Recherche Clinique [Créteil]
6 Service de pédiatrie générale [CH Lisieux]
7 Service de Néonatologie [CHI Créteil]
8 Service de Pédiatrie [Créteil]

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Human health and pathology; Infectious diseases; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Bacteriology; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Immunology; Vaccinology

Rania Matar, Eva Hong, Corinne Levy, Marcel Guillot, Robert Cohen, et al.. Vaccine failure after Meningococcal C conjugate vaccine may be linked to decline of bactericidal titers and absence of herd immunity.. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2015, 34 (10), pp.1142-1143. ⟨10.1097/INF.0000000000000833⟩. ⟨pasteur-02060614⟩