Steve J. Gray

TL;DR: Characterisation of isolates showed them to be of clonal origin (ET-37) and closely related to other meningococci with an established propensity to cause disease clusters and a reappraisal of vaccination strategies for travellers is required.

TL;DR: Although there was no significant difference between groups at 1 month after vaccine course, MenACWY-CRM and 4CMenB vaccines reduced meningococcal carriage rates during 12 months after vaccination and therefore might affect transmission when widely implemented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the incidence of invasive disease due to these pathogens during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and found that containment policies and public information campaigns likely reduced transmission of S pneumoniae, H influenzae, and N meningitidis, leading to a significant reduction in lifethreatening invasive diseases in many countries worldwide.

TL;DR: The recent increase in invasive MenW disease in England and Wales is due to rapid endemic expansion of a single clone belonging to the sequence type 11 complex (cc11) and is associated with severe disease with unusual clinical presentations.

TL;DR: High resolution ‘genomic’ multilocus sequence typing is necessary to resolve and monitor the spread of diverse cc11 lineages globally.