Safety of One Dose of Meningococcal ACWY Conjugate Vaccine in Subjects From 2 Months to 55 Years of Age in the Republic of South Korea

Summary

A multicenter, single arm, post-marketing surveillance study. This study is a postlicensure requirement of the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) to provide continued safety evaluation of MenACWY in the Korean population from 2 months to 55 years of age, receiving MenACWY-CRM vaccination according to routine clinical practice and prescribing information.

Timeline

Start

2013-03-15

Primary completion

2018-01-22

Completion

2018-01-22

Publications

• Background Al-Tawfiq JA, Clark TA, Memish ZA. Meningococcal disease: the organism, clinical presentation, and worldwide epidemiology. J Travel Med. 2010 Sep-Oct;17 Suppl:3-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2010.00448.x. No abstract available.
• Background Bae SM, Kang YH. Serological and genetic characterization of meningococcal isolates in Korea. Jpn J Infect Dis. 2008 Nov;61(6):434-7.
• Background Cho HK, Lee H, Kang JH, Kim KN, Kim DS, Kim YK, Kim JS, Kim JH, Kim CH, Kim HM, Park SE, Oh SH, Chung EH, Cha SH, Choi YY, Hur JK, Hong YJ, Lee HJ, Kim KH. The causative organisms of bacterial meningitis in Korean children in 1996-2005. J Korean Med Sci. 2010 Jun;25(6):895-9. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2010.25.6.895. Epub 2010 May 24.
• Background Deasy A, Read RC. Challenges for development of meningococcal vaccines in infants and children. Expert Rev Vaccines. 2011 Mar;10(3):335-43. doi: 10.1586/erv.11.3.
• Background Hill DJ, Griffiths NJ, Borodina E, Virji M. Cellular and molecular biology of Neisseria meningitidis colonization and invasive disease. Clin Sci (Lond). 2010 Feb 9;118(9):547-64. doi: 10.1042/CS20090513.
• Background Lee JH, Cho HK, Kim KH, Kim CH, Kim DS, Kim KN, Cha SH, Oh SH, Hur JK, Kang JH, Kim JH, Kim YK, Hong YJ, Chung EH, Park SE, Choi YY, Kim JS, Kim HM, Choi EH, Lee HJ. Etiology of invasive bacterial infections in immunocompetent children in Korea (1996-2005): a retrospective multicenter study. J Korean Med Sci. 2011 Feb;26(2):174-83. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2011.26.2.174. Epub 2011 Jan 24.
• Background Moon SY, Chung DR, Kim SW, Chang HH, Lee H, Jung DS, Kim YS, Jung SI, Ryu SY, Heo ST, Moon C, Ki HK, Son JS, Kwon KT, Shin SY, Lee JS, Lee SS, Rhee JY, Lee JA, Joung MK, Cheong HS, Peck KR, Song JH. Changing etiology of community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults: a nationwide multicenter study in Korea. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2010 Jul;29(7):793-800. doi: 10.1007/s10096-010-0929-8. Epub 2010 May 1.
• Background Obaro SK, Madhi SA. Bacterial pneumonia vaccines and childhood pneumonia: are we winning, refining, or redefining? Lancet Infect Dis. 2006 Mar;6(3):150-61. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(06)70411-X.
• Background Rouphael NG, Stephens DS. Neisseria meningitidis: biology, microbiology, and epidemiology. Methods Mol Biol. 2012;799:1-20. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-346-2_1.
• Background Trotter CL, Andrews NJ, Kaczmarski EB, Miller E, Ramsay ME. Effectiveness of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine 4 years after introduction. Lancet. 2004 Jul 24-30;364(9431):365-7. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16725-1.
• Yoo BW, Jung HL, Byeon YS, Han DK, Jeong NY, Curina C, Moraschini L, Kim SJ, Bhusal C, Pellegrini M, Miao Y. Results from a large post-marketing safety surveillance study in the Republic of Korea with a quadrivalent meningococcal CRM-conjugate vaccine in individuals aged 2 months-55 years. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2020 Jun 2;16(6):1260-1267. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2019.1670125. Epub 2019 Oct 25.

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