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Vol. 150. Issue 3.
Pages 109-113 (February 2018)
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Vol. 150. Issue 3.
Pages 109-113 (February 2018)
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Pros and cons of vaccination against disease caused by serogroup B meningococcal disease
Pros y contras de la vacunación frente a la enfermedad por meningococo B
Miguel Delgado Rodrígueza,b,
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mdelgado@ujaen.es

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, Ángela Domínguez Garcíab,c
a División de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
b Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
c Departamento de Medicina, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Table 1. Outbreaks of meningococcal B disease in American college campuses where the vaccination has been applied.
Table 2. Cost-effectiveness studies on the serogroup B meningococcal vaccine in newborns, carried out in different countries.
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Abstract

A vaccine has recently been approved in the EU against meningococcal serogroup B, the main cause of meningococcal disease. There is a fierce debate about the decision regarding a universal vaccination in infants older than 2 months, as recommended by the majority of scientific societies. In western Europe the only country to have included the universal vaccination is the United Kingdom, with a lower incidence of the disease than Ireland. Other countries have also adopted it, such as the Czech Republic, Cuba and certain regions of Italy. Numerous cost-effectiveness studies have been published regarding the vaccination with different assumptions, which have supported the decision not to implant the universal vaccination because it exceeds the will to pay for a health benefit. We discuss the pros and cons of the universal vaccination against meningococcal B, recommended by the Sociedad Española de Pediatría (Spanish Society of Paediatrics), which as yet has not been implemented.

Keywords:
Meningococcal disease
Meningococcal serogroup B
Vaccine
Cost-effectiveness analysis
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Se ha aprobado recientemente en la UE una vacuna frente al meningococo serogrupo B, principal causante de enfermedad meningocócica. Existe una fuerte discusión sobre la decisión de una vacunación universal en niños mayores de 2 meses, recomendada por la mayoría de las sociedades científicas. En Europa occidental el único país que ha incluido la vacunación universal ha sido el Reino Unido, con una incidencias inferior de la enfermedad a la de Irlanda. Otros países también la han adoptado, como Chequia, Cuba o ciertas regiones de Italia. Se han publicado numerosos estudios de coste-efectividad sobre la vacunación con asunciones diferentes, que han sustentado la decisión de no implantar la vacunación universal al superar la voluntad de pagar por un beneficio de salud. Se discuten los pros y contras de la vacunación universal frente al meningococo B, recomendada por la Sociedad Española de Pediatría, y que no se ha implantado aún.

Palabras clave:
Enfermedad meningocócica
Meningococo serogrupo B
Vacuna
Análisis coste-efectividad

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