MENINGOCOCCAL AND TRAVELLERS’ VACCINATIONS

ABSTRACT

The increase in international tourism has created demandfor vaccination to protect against travel-associatedillness. The decision to vaccinate travellers involvesrisk-benefit assessment. Most currently used travelvaccines include the meningococcal vaccine, yellow fevervaccine, typhoid vaccine, and Japanese encephalitisvaccine.This review addresses the limitations posed by themeningococcal polysaccharide vaccine, the differentquadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccines available,the current recommendations in children and adults andthe development of new meningococcal B vaccines.This review also addresses the current recommendationsfor yellow fever vaccines, new typhoid conjugate vaccines,changing epidemiology of Japanese encephalitis (JE), andnew recommendations for the JE vaccines.