A 36-year-old member asked:
Which vaccine is better to get: meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine or meningococcal conjugate vaccine?
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Dr. Larry Lutwickanswered
Infectious Disease 50 years experience
Conjugate in theory: Conjugating the Meningococcal capsule polysaccharide to a protein backbone makes it useful in children less than 2years and facilitates immunologic memory but there are no head to head efficacy trials.
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Dr. Yash Khannaanswered
Family Medicine 58 years experience
Conjugate Vaccine: It is considered that conjugate vaccine provides better long term protection as compared to Polysachride Vaccine due to the mechanism by which antibody response occurs.
Plysacchride Vaccine does not provide same level of Herd Immunityas is provided by Conjugate Vaccine
3.1k viewsAnswered >2 years agoMerged
Last updated Mar 16, 2015
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