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10-Year Papers | 2-Year Papers

The most dominant theme by far among the two-year papers is the importance of factor H-binding protein in meningitis: 25% of the two-year list deals with this subject. Research into the serogroup C vaccine is still a prevalent theme as well. Additional vaccines getting citation attention include the PCV7 vaccine against pneumococcal meningitis in French children and the tetravalent meningococcal glycoconjugate vaccine for infants.

Other notable papers cover such areas as treatment, epidemiology, and outcomes of cryptococcal meningitis in patients with HIV/AIDS, human parechoviruses as a viral cause of meningitis and sepsis, and using whole genome studies to understand the virulence evolution of Neisseria meningitidis.

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***Article 1
Total Cites: 46
Article Title: Immunogenicity of a tetravalent meningococcal glycoconjugate vaccine in infants - A randomized controlled trial
Authors: Snape, MD, Perrett, KP, Ford, KJ, John, TM, Pace, D, Yu, LM, Langley, JM, Mcneil, S, Dull, PM, Ceddia, F, Anemona, A, Halperin, SA, Dobson, S, Pollard, AJ
Journal: JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Volume: 299
Page: 173-184
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Univ Oxford, Oxford Vaccine Grp, Oxford, England
· Ctr Stat Med, Oxford, England
· Dalhousie Univ, Canadian Ctr Vaccinol, Halifax, Canada
· IWK Hlth Ctr, Halifax, Canada
· Queen Elizabeth 2 Hlth Sci Ctr, Halifax, Canada
· Novartis Vaccines & Diagnost, Siena, Italy
· British Columbia Childrens Hosp, Vaccine Evaluat Ctr, Vancouver, Canada
· Churchill Hosp, CCVTM, Oxford Vaccine Grp, Old Rd, Oxford, England

***Article 2
Total Cites: 36
Article Title: Effect of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Pneumococcal Meningitis
Authors: Hsu, HE, Shutt, KA, Moore, MR, Beall, BW, Bennett, NM, Craig, AS, Farley, MM, Jorgensen, JH, Lexau, CA, Petit, S, Reingold, A, Schaffner, W, Thomas, A, Whitney, CG, Harrison, LH
Journal: NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume: 360
Page: 244-256
Year: 2009
Addresses:
· Univ Pittsburgh, Infect Dis Epidemiol Res Unit, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
· Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Natl Ctr Immunizat & Resp Dis, Atlanta, GA, USA
· Emory Univ, Vet Affairs Med Ctr, Atlanta, GA, USA
· Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
· Tennessee Dept Hlth, Nashville, TN, USA
· Vanderbilt Univ, Sch Med, Nashville, TN, USA
· Univ Texas Hlth Sci Ctr San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
· Minnesota Dept Hlth, St Paul, MN, USA
· Connecticut Dept Publ Hlth, Hartford, CT, USA
· Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
· Oregon State Publ Hlth Div, Portland, OR, USA
· JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV, Baltimore, MD, USA
· Univ Pittsburgh, Infect Dis Epidemiol Res Unit, 521 Parran Hall,130 Desoto St, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

***Article 3
Total Cites: 33
Article Title: Impact of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccines on carriage and herd immunity
Authors: Maiden, MCJ, Ibarz-pavon, AB, Urwin, R, Gray, SJ, Andrews, NJ, Clarke, SC, Walker, AM, Evans, MR, Kroll, JS, Neal, KR, Alaaldeen, DAA, Crook, DW, Cann, K, Harrison, S, Cunningham, R, Baxter, D, Kaczmarski, E, Maclennan, J, Cameron, JC, Stuart, JM
Journal: JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume: 197
Page: 737-743
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Univ Oxford, Dept Zool, Oxford, England
· Univ Oxford, John Radcliffe Hosp, Nuffield Dept, Clin & Lab Sci, Oxford, England
· Manchester Med Microbiol Partnership, Hlth Protect Agcy, Meningococcal Reference Unit, Manchester, England
· Manchester Royal Infirm, Manchester, England
· Univ Manchester, Sch Med, Div Epidemiol & Hlth Sci, Manchester, England
· Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Sch Med, London, England
· Ctr Infect, Hlth Protect Agcy, London, England
· Univ Southampton, Sch Med, Mol Microbiol Grp, Southampton, England
· Univ Wales, Bangor, Wales
· Parc Nantgarw, Natl Publ Hlth Serv Wales, Unit 1, Cardiff, Wales
· Univ Nottingham, Queens Med Ctr, Nottingham, England
· Univ Nottingham, Inset Infect Immun & Inflammat, Sch Mol Med Sci, Div Microbiol, Nottingham, England
· Lescaze Off, SW Peninsula Hlth Protet Unit, Dartington, England
· Derriford Hosp, Plymouth, England
· Hlth Protect Scotland Clifton House, Glasgow, Scotland
· Hlth Prot Agcy SW, Gloucester, England
· Univ Oxford, Pathogen Res & Dept Zool, Peter Medawar Bldg,S Pk Rd, Oxford, England

***Article 4
Total Cites: 27
Article Title: Changing epidemiology of pneumococcal meningitis after the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in the United States
Authors: Tsai, CJ, Griffin, MR, Nuorti, JP, Grijalva, CG
Journal: CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume: 46
Page: 1664-1672
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Vanderbilt Univ, Sch Med, Dept Prevent Med, Nashville, TN, USA
· Vanderbilt Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med, Nashville, TN, USA
· Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Natl Ctr Immunizat & Resp Dis, Atlanta, GA, USA
· Vanderbilt Univ, Sch Med, Dept Prevent Med, 1500 21st Ave,2600 VAV, Nashville, TN, USA

***Article 5
Total Cites: 24
Article Title: Outcomes of cryptococcal meningitis in Uganda before and after the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy
Authors: Kambugu, A, Meya, DB, Rhein, J, Obrien, M, Janoff, EN, Ronald, AR, Kamya, MR, Mayanja-kizza, H, Sande, MA, Bohjanen, PR, Boulware, DR
Journal: CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume: 46
Page: 1694-1701
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Makerere Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med, Kampala, Uganda
· Makerere Univ, Infect Dis Inst, Kampala, Uganda
· Univ Minnesota, Dept Med, Div Infect Dis & Int Med, Minneapolis, MN, USA
· Univ Minnesota, Dept Microbiol, Minneapolis, MN, USA
· Univ Minnesota, Ctr Infect Dis & Microbiol Translat Res, Minneapolis, MN, USA
· NEW YORK UNIV, Sch Med, Div Infect Dis, Dept Med, New York, NY, USA
· Univ Colorado, Sch Med,Div Infect Dis, Denver Vet Affairs Med Ctr,Colorado Ctr AIDS Res, Mucosal & Vaccine Res Program Colorado MAVRC, Denver, CO, USA
· Univ Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
· MMC 250,420 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN, USA

***Article 6
Total Cites: 23
Article Title: Whole-genome comparison of disease and carriage strains provides insights into virulence evolution in Neisseria meningitidis
Authors: Schoen, C, Blom, J, Claus, H, Schramm-gluck, A, Brandt, P, Muller, T, Goesmann, A, Joseph, B, Konietzny, S, Kurzai, O, Schmitt, C, Friedrich, T, Linke, B, Vogel, U, Frosch, M
Journal: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Volume: 105
Page: 3473-3478
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Univ Wurzburg, Inst Hyg & Microbiol, Wurzburg, Germany
· Univ Bielefeld, Ctr Biotechnol, Bielefeld, Germany
· MWG Biotech, Ebersberg, Germany
· Univ Wurzburg, Dept Bioinformat, Wurzburg, Germany
· Univ Wurzburg, Inst Hyg & Microbiol, Josef Schneider Str 2,Bldg E1, Wurzburg, Germany

***Article 7
Total Cites: 23
Article Title: Complement-dependent synergistic bactericidal activity of antibodies against factor H-binding protein, a sparsely distributed meningococcal vaccine antigen
Authors: Welsch, JA, Ram, S, Koeberling, O, Granoff, DM
Journal: JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume: 197
Page: 1053-1061
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Childrens Hosp Oakland, Res Inst, Ctr Immunobiol & Vaccine Dev, Oakland, CA, USA
· Univ Massachusetts, Sch Med, Div Infect Dis & Immunol, Worcester, MA, USA
· 5700 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland, CA, USA

***Article 8
Total Cites: 22
Article Title: High-dose amphotericin B with flucytosine for the treatment of cryptococcal meningitis in HIV-infected patients: A randomized trial
Authors: Bicanic, T, Wood, R, Meintjes, G, Rebe, K, Brouwer, A, Loyse, A, Bekker, LG, Jaffar, S, Harrison, T
Journal: CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume: 47
Page: 123-130
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Univ Cape Town, Desmond Tutu HIV Ctr, Inst Infect Dis & Mol Med, Cape Town, South Africa
· Univ Cape Town, Dept Med, Cape Town, South Africa
· GF Jooste Hosp, HIV Serv, Cape Town, South Africa
· St Georges Univ London, Ctr Infect, Dept Cellular & Mol Med, London, England
· London Sch Hyg & Trop Med, Dept Epidemiol & Populat, London, England
· UNIV NIJMEGEN, Dept Internal Med & Infect Dis, Nijmegen, Netherlands
· St George Hosp, Sch Med, Div Infect Dis, Dept Cellular & Mol Med, London, England

***Article 9
Total Cites: 22
Article Title: Estimation of the current global burden of cryptococcal meningitis among persons living with HIV/AIDS
Authors: Park, BJ, Wannemuehler, KA, Marston, BJ, Govender, N, Pappas, PG, Chiller, TA
Journal: AIDS
Volume: 23
Page: 525-530
Year: 2009
Addresses:
· Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Mycot Dis Branch, Atlanta, GA, USA
· Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Biostat Off, Div Foodborne Bacterial & Mycot Dis, Atlanta, GA, USA
· Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Global AIDS Program, Atlanta, GA, USA
· Natl Inst Communicable Dis, Mycol Reference Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa
· Univ Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
· 1600 Clifton Rd,MS C-09, Atlanta, GA, USA

***Article 10
Total Cites: 21
Article Title: Pneumococcal meningitis in the era of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine implementation
Authors: Bingen, E, Levy, C, Varon, E, de la Rocque, F, Boucherat, M, dathis, P, Aujard, Y, Cohen, R, Bacterial Meningitis Study Grp
Journal: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume: 27
Page: 191-199
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Hop Robert Debre, Microbiol Serv, Paris, France
· Pediat Infect Dis Grp, French Pediat Soc, Paris, France
· ACTIV, Saint Maur Fosses, France
· Hop Georges Pomidou, Natl Reference Ctr Streptococcus Pneumoniae, Paris, France
· Univ Dijon, Ctr Hosp, Dept Biostat, Dijon, France
· Hop Robert Debre, Microbiol Serv, 48 Bvd Serurier, Paris, France

***Article 11
Total Cites: 18
Article Title: Fine antigenic specificity and cooperative bactericidal activity of monoclonal antibodies directed at the meningococcal vaccine candidate factor H-binding protein
Authors: Beernink, PT, Welsch, JA, Bar-lev, M, Koeberling, O, Comanducci, M, Granoff, DM
Journal: INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Volume: 76
Page: 4232-4240
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Childrens Hosp Oakland, Res Inst, Ctr Immunobiol & Vaccine Dev, Oakland, CA, USA
· Novartis Vaccines, Siena, Italy
· 5700 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland, CA, USA

***Article 12
Total Cites: 18
Article Title: Binding of Complement Factor H (fH) to Neisseria meningitidis Is Specific for Human fH and Inhibits Complement Activation by Rat and Rabbit Sera
Authors: Granoff, DM, Welsch, JA, Ram, S
Journal: INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Volume: 77
Page: 764-769
Year: 2009
Addresses:
· Childrens Hosp Oakland, Res Inst, Ctr Immunobiol & Vaccine Dev, Oakland, CA, USA
· Univ Massachusetts, Sch Med, Div Infect Dis & Immunol, Worcester, MA, USA
· 5700 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland, CA, USA

***Article 13
Total Cites: 18
Article Title: Characterization of ST-4821 complex, a unique Neisseria meningitidis clone
Authors: Peng, JP, Yang, L, Yang, F, Yang, J, Yan, YL, Nie, H, Zhang, XB, Xiong, Z, Jiang, Y, Cheng, F, Xu, X, Chen, S, Sun, L, Li, WJ, Shen, Y, Shao, ZJ, Liang, XF, Xu, JG, Jin, Q
Journal: GENOMICS
Volume: 91
Page: 78-87
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Natl Inst Viral Dis Control & Prevent, State Key Lab Mol Virol & Genet Engn, Beijing, Peoples R China
· Wuhan Univ, Coll Life Sci, Wuhan, Peoples R China
· Natl Ctr Human Genome Res, Beijing, Peoples R China
· Natl Inst Communicable Dis Control & Prevent, Beijing, Peoples R China
· State Key Lab Infect Dis Prevent & Control, Beijing, Peoples R China
· Natl Immunizat Program Ctr, Beijing, Peoples R China

***Article 14
Total Cites: 18
Article Title: Human parechoviruses as an important viral cause of sepsislike illness and meningitis in young children
Authors: Wolthers, KC, Benschop, KSM, Schinkel, J, Molenkamp, R, Bergevoet, RM, Spijkerman, IJB, Kraakman, HC, Pajkrt, D
Journal: CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume: 47
Page: 358-363
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Univ Amsterdam, Acad Med Ctr, Emma Childrens Hosp, Dept Med Microbiol,Lab Clin Virol, Amsterdam, Netherlands
· Univ Amsterdam, Acad Med Ctr, Emma Childrens Hosp, Dept Pediat Infect Dis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
· Onze Lieve Vrouw Hosp, Dept Med Microbiol, Amsterdam, Netherlands
· Onze Lieve Vrouw Hosp, Dept Pediat, Amsterdam, Netherlands
· Univ Amsterdam, Acad Med Ctr, Dept Med Microbiol, Lab Clin Virol K1 121, Amsterdam, Netherlands

***Article 15
Total Cites: 17
Article Title: Neisseria meningitidis recruits factor H using protein mimicry of host carbohydrates
Authors: Schneider, MC, Prosser, BE, Caesar, JJE, Kugelberg, E, Li, S, Zhang, Q, Quoraishi, S, Lovett, JE, Deane, JE, Sim, RB, Roversi, P, Johnson, S, Tang, CM, Lea, SM
Journal: NATURE
Volume: 458
Page: 890-U9
Year: 2009
Addresses:
· Univ Oxford, Sir William Dunn Sch Pathol, Oxford, England
· Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Ctr Mol Microbiol & Infect, London, England
· Univ Oxford, Dept Biochem, MRC, Immunochem Unit, Oxford, England
· Univ Oxford, Sir William Dunn Sch Pathol, S Parks Rd, Oxford, England

***Article 16
Total Cites: 16
Article Title: Myelomonocytic cell recruitment causes fatal CNS vascular injury during acute viral meningitis
Authors: Kim, JV, Kang, SS, Dustin, ML, Mcgavern, DB
Journal: NATURE
Volume: 457
Page: 191-U85
Year: 2009
Addresses:
· NEW YORK UNIV, Sch Med, Helen L & Martin S Kimmel Ctr Biol & Med, Skirball Inst Biomol Med,Program Mol Pathogenesis, New York, NY, USA
· Scripps Res Inst, Dept Immunol & Microbial Sci, La Jolla, CA, USA
· NYU, Sch Med, Helen L & Martin S Kimmel Ctr Biol & Med, Skirball Inst Biomol Med,Program Mol Pathogenesis, New York, NY, USA

***Article 17
Total Cites: 15
Article Title: Seroprotection against serogroup C meningococcal disease in adolescents in the United Kingdom: observational study
Authors: Snape, MD, Kelly, DF, Lewis, S, Banner, C, Kibwana, L, Moore, CE, Diggle, L, John, T, Yu, LM, Borrow, R, Borkowski, A, Nau, C, Pollard, AJ
Journal: BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL
Volume: 336
Page: 1487-+
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Univ Oxford, Churchill Hosp, Oxford Vaccine Grp, Dept Paediatr,Ctr Clin Vaccinol & Trop Med, Oxford, England
· Univ Oxford, Ctr Stat Med, Oxford, England
· Hlth Protect Agcy, Vaccine Evaluat Unit, Manchester, England
· Novartis Vaccines, Marburg, Germany

***Article 18
Total Cites: 14
Article Title: Bactericidal antibody responses induced by meningococcal recombinant chimeric factor H-binding protein vaccines
Authors: Beernink, PT, Granoff, DM
Journal: INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Volume: 76
Page: 2568-2575
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Childrens Hosp Oakland, Res Inst, Ctr Immunobiol & Vaccine Dev, Oakland, CA, USA
· 5700 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland, CA, USA

***Article 19
Total Cites: 13
Article Title: Sensitivity of the bacterial meningitis score in 889 children with bacterial meningitis
Authors: Dubos, F, De la Rocque, F, Levy, C, Bingen, E, Aujard, Y, Cohen, R, Breart, G, Gendrel, D, Chalumeau, M, Bacterial Meningitis Study Grp
Journal: J PEDIATR
Volume: 152
Page: 378-382
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Hop St Vincent de Paul, Dept Pediat, Clin Epidemiol Unit, AP HP, Paris, France
· Univ Paris Descartes, Paris, France
· Univ Lille 2, Lille, France
· UNIV LILLE, Jeanne de Flandre Hosp, Pediat Emergency & Infect Dis Unit, Lille, France
· GPIP ACTIV Bacterial Meningitis French Surveillan, Assoc Clin & Therapeut Infantile Val de Marne, Grp Pathol Infect Pediat, St Maur des Fosses, France
· INSERM, U149, Paris, France

***Article 20
Total Cites: 13
Article Title: Dose Response Effect of High-Dose Fluconazole for HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis in Southwestern Uganda
Authors: Longley, N, Muzoora, C, Taseera, K, Mwesigye, J, Rwebembera, J, Chakera, A, Wall, E, Andia, I, Jaffar, S, Harrison, TS
Journal: CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume: 47
Page: 1556-1561
Year: 2008
Addresses:
· Mbarara Univ Hosp, Dept Med, Mbarara, Uganda
· Mbarara Univ Hosp, Dept Microbiol, Mbarara, Uganda
· St Georges Univ London, Ctr Infect, Dept Cellular & Mol Med, London, England
· London Sch Hyg & Trop Med, Dept Epidemiol & Populat, London, England