Society guideline links: Meningococcal infection

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Bacterial meningitis in adults" and "Society guideline links: Bacterial meningitis in infants and children" and "Society guideline links: Travel medicine".)

International

●Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM): Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency (CIRCI) in critically ill patients (Part II), 2017 (published 2018)

●World Health Organization (WHO): Meningococcal A conjugate vaccine – Updated guidance (2015)

•WHO: Position paper on meningococcal vaccines (2011)

Canada

●Canadian Pediatric Society (CPS): Position statement on invasive meningococcal vaccination for Canadian children and youth, update (2018, updated 2020)

●Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC): Canadian Immunization Guide – Meningococcal vaccine (2015, updated 2020)

United States

●Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): Adult immunization schedule – Recommendations for ages 19 years or older, United States (2024)

●ACIP: Child and adolescent immunization schedule – Recommendations for ages 18 years or younger, United States (2024)

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Yellow Book 2024 – Health Information for International Travel: Meningococcal disease (published 2023)

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book – Meningococcal infections (2021)

●CDC: Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases ("The Pink Book") – Meningococcal disease (2021)

●ACIP: Meningococcal vaccination – Recommendations, United States (2020)

Europe

●European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): Vaccine scheduler – Meningococcal disease: Recommended vaccinations

●Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM): Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency (CIRCI) in critically ill patients (Part II), 2017 (published 2018)

United Kingdom

●Public Health England (PHE): Meningococcal disease – Guidance, data, and analysis (2014, updated 2023)

●PHE: The Green Book – Meningococcal (2013, updated 2022)

●British Infection Association (BIA): Early management of suspected meningitis and meningococcal sepsis in immunocompetent adults, 3rd edition (2016)

●The UK Joint Specialist Societies: Guideline on the diagnosis and management of acute meningitis and meningococcal sepsis in immunocompetent adults (2016)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Clinical guideline on meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal septicaemia in under 16s – Recognition, diagnosis and management (2010, updated 2015)

●NICE: Quality standard on meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal septicaemia in children and young people (2012)

Australia–New Zealand

●Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI): The Australian Immunisation Handbook – Meningococcal disease