TY - JOUR
T1 - Meningococcal polysaccharide vaccination of military recruits in Israel
T2 - Preliminary assessment of vaccine effect
AU - Mimouni, Daniel
AU - Gdalevich, Michael
AU - Mandel, Yosef
AU - Haim, Moti
AU - Ashkenazi, Isaac
AU - Shemer, Joshua
AU - Block, Colin
N1 - Medical Corps, Israel Defense Force
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Meningococcal disease in the Israel Defense Force is caused mainly by serogroups C and Y. Immunization of recruits with quadrivalent polysaccharide vaccine was introduced in November 1994. The person-time incidence rate dropped from 1.33 cases per 100,000 person-years for the preceding decade to 0 for the 32 months following immunization (p = 0.025).
AB - Meningococcal disease in the Israel Defense Force is caused mainly by serogroups C and Y. Immunization of recruits with quadrivalent polysaccharide vaccine was introduced in November 1994. The person-time incidence rate dropped from 1.33 cases per 100,000 person-years for the preceding decade to 0 for the 32 months following immunization (p = 0.025).
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0031709846&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00365549850160909
DO - 10.1080/00365549850160909
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SN - 0036-5548
VL - 30
SP - 263
EP - 264
JO - Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
JF - Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
IS - 3
ER -
