Vaccine-preventable meningitis in French children with incorrect vaccination status from 2011 to 2013 |
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| Institution: | 1. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;2. Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;3. Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;4. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;5. Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN;6. Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;7. GeneOne Life Science, Inc., Seoul, South Korea;8. Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, PA;9. Division of Geriatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Abstract: | The objective of this study was to determine the number of cases of pediatric meningitis or purpura fulminans associated with an incorrect vaccination status from 2011 to 2013 in France. A total of 48 children with vaccine-preventable meningitis or purpura fulminans, including three deaths, had an incorrect vaccination status: 26 cases were due to Neisseria meningitidis group C (54.2%), 19 to Streptococcus pneumoniae (39.6%), and three to Haemophilus influenzae type b (6.3%). The majority of patients (n = 35, 72.9%) had received no injection of the vaccine concerned. Over a 3-year period, 48 cases of bacterial meningitis or purpura fulminans in children could have been avoided if the French immunization schedule had been followed. |
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| Keywords: | Bacterial meningitis Children Vaccine |
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