Epidemic Meningococcal Disease: Synthesis of a Hypothetical Immunoepidemiologic Model

HUMAN IMMUNITY TO THE MENINGOCOCCUS

1969 • 1,009 citations

PEYER'S PATCHES: AN ENRICHED SOURCE OF PRECURSORS FOR I<scp>G</scp>A-PRODUCING IMMUNOCYTES IN THE RABBIT

1971 • 756 citations

Clinical Efficacy of Meningococcus Group A Capsular Polysaccharide Vaccine in Children Three Months to Five Years of Age

1977 • 345 citations

Influenzal Meningitis The Relation of Age Incidence to the Bactericidal Power of Blood Against the Causal Organism

1933 • 340 citations

T-cell regulation of murine IgA synthesis.

1979 • 279 citations

Rapid active transport of immunoglobulin A from blood to bile.

1978 • 266 citations

Repopulation with IgA-Containing Cells of Bronchial and Intestinal Lamina Propria after Transfer of Homologous Peyer's Patch and Bronchial Lymphocytes

1975 • 235 citations

Suppression of leukocyte chemotaxis by human IgA myeloma components.

1976 • 220 citations

Complex of Meningococcal Group B Polysaccharide and Type 2 Outer Membrane Protein Immunogenic in Man

1979 • 205 citations

A Simultaneous Outbreak of Meningococcal and Influenza Infections

1972 • 197 citations

Immunochemical Similarity Between Polysaccharide Antigens of Escherichia Coli 07:K1(L):NM and Group B Neisseria Meningitidis

1973 • 191 citations

Serotypes of Neisseria meningitidis isolated from patients in Norway during the first six months of 1978

1979 • 167 citations

Vaccines for the prevention of encapsulated bacterial diseases: current status, problems and prospects for the future

1978 • 161 citations

Human deficiency of the eighth component of complement. The requirement of C8 for serum Neisseria gonorrhoeae bactericidal activity.

1976 • 155 citations

Outer-membrane protein and lipopolysaccharide serotyping of Neisseria meningitidis by inhibition of a solid-phase radioimmunoassay

1977 • 153 citations

Gamma-M deficiency predisposing to meningococcal septicaemia.

1967 • 149 citations

Bactericidal activity of meningococcal antisera. Blocking by IgA of lytic antibody in human convalescent sera.

1975 • 148 citations

BACTERIAL ANTIGENS CROSS-REACTIVE WITH THE CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE OF HÆMOPHILUS INFLUENZÆ TYPE b

1971 • 124 citations

EFFECT OF GROUP-A MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINE IN ARMY RECRUITS IN FINLAND

1975 • 124 citations

Structural elucidation of the 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid containing meningococcal 29-e capsular polysaccharide antigen using carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance

1978 • 119 citations

Enteric Bacteria Cross-Reactive with Neisseria meningitidis Groups A and C and Diplococcus pneumoniae Types I and III

1972 • 116 citations

Immunoepidemiology of Meningococcal Disease in Military Recruits. II. Blocking of Serum Bactericidal Activity by Circulating IgA Early in the Course of Invasive Disease

1977 • 110 citations

Seroepidemiology and Chemoprophylaxis of Disease Due to Sulfonamide-Resistant Neisseria meningitidis in a Civilian Population

1974 • 99 citations

Deficient Serum Bactericidal Activity Against Escherichia Coli in Patients with Cirrhosis of the Liver

1979 • 94 citations

Host Defense Against Neisseria meningitidis Requires a Complement-Dependent Bactericidal Activity

1979 • 94 citations

Bactericidal Antibody after Colonization with Neisseria meningitidis

1973 • 94 citations

Antibody Response to Capsular Polysaccharides of Groups A and C Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus influenzae Type b during Bacteremic Disease

1981 • 93 citations

MENINGOCOCCUS CARRIER RATES AND MENINGITIS INCIDENCE

1950 • 91 citations

Cross-Antigenicity and Immunogenicity between Capsular Polysaccharides of Group C Neisseria meningitidis and of Escherichia coli K92

1977 • 80 citations

The Complement System in Host Defense and Inflammation

1979 • 78 citations

IgA-dependent, monocyte-mediated, antibacterial activity.

1980 • 78 citations

Structure and serological specificity of the K13-antigenic polysaccharide (K13 antigen) of urinary tract-infective Escherichia coli

1979 • 76 citations

Antigenic Specificity of Bactericidal Antibodies in Antisera to Neisseria meningitidis

1973 • 74 citations

Neisseria meningitidis Infections in Northern Norway: An Epidemic in 1974-1975 Due Mainly to Group B Organisms

1977 • 57 citations

Identification of an Epidemic Strain of Group C Neisseria meningitidis by Bactericidal Serotyping

1971 • 57 citations

Comparative Immunogenicity of Vaccines Prepared from Capsular Polysaccharides of Group C Neisseria meningitidis O.Acetyl.Positive and O.Acetyl.Negative Variants and Escherichia coli K92 in Adult Volunteers

1979 • 54 citations

THE MENINGOCOCCAL CARRIER-RATE

1973 • 49 citations

Acute Respiratory Disease and Meningococcal Infection in Army Recruits

1967 • 48 citations

Antibody-dependent Mononuclear Cell-mediated Antimeningococcal Activity

1980 • 46 citations

Safety and immunogenicity of group Y and group W135 meningococcal capsular polysaccharide vaccines in adults

1981 • 45 citations

Meningococcal infections. 1. Prevalence of serogroups causing disease in US Army personnel in 1964-70.

1971 • 39 citations

NON-USEFULNESS OF MENINGOCOCCAL CARRIAGE-RATES

1973 • 38 citations

Comparative study of group A and group C meningococcal infection.

1977 • 38 citations

THE RISK OF MENINGITIS AMONG CLASSROOM CONTACTS DURING AN EPIDEMIC OF MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE

1976 • 35 citations

Immunoprophylaxis of Meningococcal Infection

1974 • 34 citations

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SULFONAMIDE-RESISTANT MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS IN A CIVILIAN POPULATION1

1971 • 33 citations

Heterogeneity of Serotypes of Neisseria meningitidis that Cause Endemic Disease

1979 • 31 citations

An Epidemic of Disease Due to Serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis in Alabama: Report of an Investigation and Community-Wide Prophylaxis with a Sulfonamide

1977 • 29 citations

Types of meningococci isolated from carriers and patients in a non-epidemic period in the netherlands

1963 • 28 citations

Immunoepidemiology of Meningococcal Disease in Military Recruits. I. A Model for Serogroup Independency of Epidemic Potential as Determined by Serotyping

1977 • 27 citations

Functional characteristics of Peyer's patch lymphoid cells. IV. Effect of antigen feeding on the frequency of antigen-specific B cells.

1977 • 25 citations

Trends in Meningococcal Disease

1972 • 21 citations

Disease due to serogroup W135 Neisseria meningitidis.

1979 • 18 citations

Meningococcal meningitis in Royal Air Force recruits

1977 • 17 citations

Prevalence of serogroups and sulfonamide resistance of meningococci from the civilian population in the United States, 1964-1970.

1973 • 17 citations

Association between cross-reacting Escherichia coli K100 and disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b

1978 • 16 citations

Immunological cross-reaction between a naturally occurring galactan, agarose, and an LPS locus for immune lysis of Neisseria meningitidis by human sera.

1981 • 15 citations

Nasopharyngeal Carriers of Neisseria meningitidis

1966 • 15 citations

Preparation of an artificial antigen and immunity to mouse typhoid.

1967 • 14 citations

Meningococcal meningitis in New Zealand with special reference to carrier rates in military trainees.

1972 • 8 citations

The ecology of the genus Neisseria.

1976 • 8 citations