Meningococcal disease during the Hajj and Umrah mass gatherings: A, C, W, Y may be covered but don't forget the B and X factors!

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2017 Jan-Feb:15:5-7. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2017.02.001. Epub 2017 Feb 6.

Authors

Saber Yezli¹, Badriah Alotaibi²

Affiliations

¹ The Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: saber.yezli@gmail.com.
² The Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

PMID: 28179184
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2017.02.001

No abstract available

Keywords: Hajj; Mass gatherings; Meningococcal disease; Neisseria meningitidis; Vaccine.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Humans
Immunization Programs
Islam*
Meningococcal Infections* / drug therapy
Meningococcal Infections* / prevention & control
Meningococcal Infections* / transmission
Meningococcal Vaccines
Saudi Arabia
Travel*

Substances

Meningococcal Vaccines