Immune surveillance for vaccine-preventable diseases

Global Invasive Bacterial Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Surveillance — 2008–2014

Meningitis and pneumonia are leading causes of morbidity and mortality in children globally infected with Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), Neisseria meningitidis, and Haemophilus influenzae causing a large proportion of disease. Vaccines are available to prevent many of the common types of these infections. S. pneumoniae was estimated to have caused 11% of deaths in children aged <5 yea...

Chapter 20: National Surveillance of Vaccine-preventable Diseases

The national reporting system for infectious diseases in the United States was initially an archival system designed to document trends in disease occurrence rather than to provide epidemiologically important information needed for prevention and control of diseases. As national immunization programs developed, so did the need for surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases. The first major su...

Vaccine-preventable diseases.

The panel addressed four main areas of vaccine development and use: diseases of public health importance for which no vaccine is available; diseases for which an existing licensed vaccine is not optimal and alternative vaccines are under development; diseases for which a vaccine exists but is not being used optimally; and diseases requiring vaccines of specialized or limited use, such as those ...

Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases

*From WHO-recommended standards for surveillance of selected vaccine-preventable diseases