| epidemiology of pathogenic neisseria meningitidis serogroup b serosubtypes in malta: implications for introducing pora based vaccines. | to describe the epidemiology of the serosubtypes of neisseria meningitidis serogroup b (menb) in the most densely populated area in europe and to review the menb porin a (pora) based outer membrane vesicle (omv) vaccines that could provide the broadest protection. | 2008 | 18801401 |
| invasive meningococcal disease in malta: an epidemiological overview, 1994-2007. | since 1996, malta has experienced an upsurge of invasive meningococcal disease (imd) following an almost 30 year period with a negligible number of annually reported cases. we reviewed the 233 imd cases notified during a 14 year period (1994-2007), and analysed epidemiological and laboratory surveillance data. the crude incidence per 100,000 inhabitants peaked in 2000 at 8.1 [95 % confidence interval (ci) 5.7-11.6] and again in 2006 at 8.9 (95 % ci 6.4-12.4), thereby placing malta amongst the co ... | 2009 | 19589903 |
| immunological effect of administration of sequential doses of haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in the same versus alternating limbs in the routine infant immunisation schedule: an open-label randomised controlled trial. | the use of different limbs for the administration of sequential doses of an intradermal rabies vaccine was shown to result in reduced vaccine immunogenicity. we aimed to assess whether this phenomenon also occurs with routine infant vaccines. | 2015 | 25577661 |