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Letters to the editor
The way ahead with meningococcal disease
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Editor,—Hoare has recently highlighted the fragmentation of research into meningococcal disease, and suggested adopting the model of the Medical Research Council trials in acute leukaemia as a potential way forward.1 Such suggestions are timely as last year meningococcal disease became the most common cause of death in children between the ages of 2 and 5 years.
The Medical Research Council trials in acute leukaemia clearly …