Bacterial Meningitis in the United States in 1995
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- 2 October 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 337 (14), 970-976
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199710023371404
Abstract
Before the introduction of the conjugate vaccines, Haemophilus influenzae type b was the major cause of bacterial meningitis in the United States, and meningitis was primarily a disease of infants and young children. We describe the epidemiologic features of bacterial meningitis five years after the H. influenzae type b conjugate vaccines were licensed for routine immunization of infants.Keywords
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