TY - JOUR AU - Campbell, Helen AU - Edelstein, Michael AU - Andrews, Nick AU - Borrow, Ray AU - Ramsay, Mary AU - Ladhani, Shamez T1 - Emergency Meningococcal ACWY Vaccination Program for Teenagers to Control Group W Meningococcal Disease, England, 2015–2016 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2017 VL - 23 IS - 7 SP - 1184 SN - 1080-6059 AB - During the first 12 months of an emergency meningococcal ACWY vaccination program for teenagers in England, coverage among persons who left school in 2015, the first cohort to be vaccinated, was 36.6%. There were 69% fewer group W meningococcal cases than predicted by trend analysis and no cases in vaccinated teenagers. KW - meningococcal infections KW - meningococcal vaccines KW - meningitis/encephalitis KW - Neisseria meningitides KW - bacteria KW - serogroup W-135 KW - vaccination KW - meningococcal ACWY conjugate vaccine KW - MenACWY KW - epidemiology KW - teenagers KW - England KW - group W meningococcal disease KW - outbreak KW - United Kingdom DO - 10.3201/eid2307.170236 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/7/17-0236_article ER - End of Reference