MeNZB – a gift we didn’t expect, and are still unwrapping

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MeNZB – a gift we didn’t expect, and are still unwrapping

27 September 2017

Helen Petousis-Harris

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 01:27 PM

A gift: the MeNZB vaccine was more broadly effective than expected

The 2004–2008 MeNZB meningococcal vaccine programme reached over one million adolescents; an epidemic was curtailed and a legacy set up for reduced rates of gonorrhoea

By Helen Petousis-Harris The second most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease, gonorrhoea, has officially become a superbug, with multidr

1. Petousis-Harris H, Paynter J, Morgan J et al. Effectiveness of a group B outer membrane vesicle meningococcal vaccine against gonorrhoea in New Zealand: a retrospective case-control study. Lancet 7 Jul 2017. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31449-6. [Epub]

2. Pérez O, Campo JD, Cuello M et al. Mucosal approaches in Neisseria vaccinology. VacciMonitor 2009;18(2):53–55.

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Otolaryngologist, head and neck surgeon Francis T. Hall discusses the evaluation of thyroid nodules, which primarily aims to determine the likelihood of malignancy. He then reviews the treatment of thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer, including recent advances in management

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