Changing Epidemiology of Bacterial Meningitis Since Introduction of Conjugate Vaccines: 3 Decades of National Meningitis Surveillance in The Netherlands.
Diederik L H KoelmanMerel N van KasselMerijn W BijlsmaMatthijs C BrouwerDiederik van de BeekArie van der EndePublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
Conjugate vaccines reduced the burden of bacterial meningitis, especially in children. The efforts for new measures to prevent bacterial meningitis should be focused on neonates and elderly, as the residual rate of disease is still high in these age groups.