Published in The Archives of Medical Research, this article reviews the high costs of diseases of poverty, increasing diarrhea morbidity (despite decreasing mortality), and new emerging evidence for long-term consequences of early childhood …

This web page provides information on malaria, including disease burden and vaccines, as well as links to relevent malaria resources.

This review, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, discusses the need to make new drugs, vaccines, and insecticides, as well as improved surveillance methods, research priorities for malaria control.

The PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative's (MVI) mission is to accelerate the development of malaria vaccines and ensure their availability and accessibility in the developing world. The website contains information on malaria and potential …

This article, published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, covers the history of meningococcal meningitis in Africa since epidemics of the infection were first described around 100 years ago. The article also …

This resource details recommended procedures for diagnosing japanese encephalitis in the laboratory as part of routine surveillance. The current draft is intended for evaluation purposes.

This manual, published by the World Health Organization, explains the most common procedures for rotavirus strain surveillance. It describes the methods and techniques used for the detection and characterization of rotaviruses.

This report, published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record, provides a summary of the World Health Organization's Diarrhoeal and Enteric Vaccines Advisory Committee's (DEVAC) annual meeting in October 2008. DEVAC, a 12-member group of experts, …

This report provides an update on JE surveillance, diagnostics, and immunization programs in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific.

This article, published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record, details the 2009 meningitis epidemic season in Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. It includes an overview of meningococcal disease, surveillance results for the season, and outbreak response …

The Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP), a collaboration between PATH and the World Health Organization, works to eliminate epidemic meningitis as a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. The MVP website includes information on …

This article, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, reviews published studies of meningococcal carriage in the African meningitis belt in order to better understand the potential impact of meningococcal conjugate vaccines. The review …

This web page provides a summary of meningococcal disease, including information about prevention and treatment. It also provides numerous links to further information related to meningococcal vaccination, global disease burden and epidemics, …

The human bacterial pathogen Neisseria meningitidis remains a serious worldwide health threat, but progress is being made toward the control of meningococcal infections. This review, published in Clinical Epidemiology, summarizes current knowledge …

Given the availability of conjugate vaccines against meningococcal disease there is now the potential to effectively control meningococcal disease globally. The authors of this article, published in Vaccine, discuss how optimal control of …

This article, published in Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, discusses the different serotypes of meningococcus that cause disease in Africa, including group-A meningococci, which cause meningococcal epidemics in the African Meningitis …

The authors of this article, published in Epidemiology and Infection, performed a literature search to trace existing information on meningococcal disease in Asia. They found that the reviewed data describing the epidemiology of …

This paper, published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases, reviews the epidemiological data describing meningococcal disease in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The authors found that, while meningococcal disease remains …

This article, published in Nature Reviews Microbiology, provides an overview of meningococcal meningitis. Topics include meningococcal global disease burden, tools and interventions to combat the disease, and partnerships focused on alleviating …

This article, published in Expert Review of Vaccines, summarizes the existing data on Neisseria meningitidis W135 epidemiology, immunology, and vaccines as they relate to meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa. Public health approaches to meningitis …

This article, published in Expert Review of Vaccines, reviews the herd immunity effects achieved following the introduction of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate (MCC) vaccines in the United Kingdom. The authors note that immunizing …

The authors of this article, published in Epidemiology and Infection, analyzed cerebrospinal fluid samples during the 2009 meningitis season in Niger, the largest epidemic observed in Niger since those of  to 1996 …

This document provides an overview of Medicines for Malaria Venture's activities and achievements.

The authors of this article, published in Epidemiology and Infection, used deterministic compartmental models to investigate how well simple model structures with seasonal forcing were able to qualitatively capture patterns of meningococcal …

This article, published in the journal Vaccine, reviews the data of meningococcal strains recovered from outbreaks and epidemics in the African meningitis belt, which can provides important insights on the biology and epidemiology of this pathogen. …