Diabetes as a risk factor for invasive meningococcal disease. A meta-analysis of observational studies

Affiliations

• ¹ Experimental Clinical Biomedical Sciences "Mario Serio" Department, University of Florence, Viale Pieraccini, Florence, 6 - 50139, Italy.
• ² Coordinator Working Group "Vaccines and Immunization Policies", Preventive Medicine and Public Health (SItI), Italian Scientific Society of Hygiene, Cogorno, Italy.
• ³ Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine, Aldo Moro, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
• ⁴ Diabetes Unit, Azienda Sanitaria Città di Torino, Turin, Italy.
• ⁵ Diabetes Unit, ASL TO4, Chivasso (Turin), Italy.
• ⁶ Unit of Endocrinology, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
• ⁷ Health Sciences Department, Catanzaro "Magna Graecia" University, Catanzaro, Italy.
• ⁸ Diabetes Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.
• ⁹ Section of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Andrology and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Precision and Regenerative Medicine and Ionian Area, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Internal Medicine Unit, Terni "Santa Maria" Hospital, Terni, Italy.
• ¹¹ Diabetes Unit, Azienda Sanitaria Novara, Novara, Italy.
• ¹² Experimental Clinical Biomedical Sciences "Mario Serio" Department, University of Florence, Viale Pieraccini, Florence, 6 - 50139, Italy. [email protected].