Pfizer wins first US approval for pentavalent meningococcal vaccine 

Pfiz­er on Fri­day won ap­proval for its next mass-mar­ket vac­cine, a pen­tava­lent meningo­coc­cal vac­cine cov­er­ing the most com­mon serogroups in­fect­ing chil­dren and young adults ages 10 to 25 years old.

The vac­cine, dubbed Pen­braya, com­bines the com­po­nents of Pfiz­er’s two cur­rent­ly ap­proved vac­cines Tru­men­ba and Ni­men­rix, to­geth­er cov­er­ing groups A, B, C, W and Y. Meningo­coc­cal dis­ease can cause menin­gi­tis, or in­flam­ma­tion of the brain and spinal cord mem­branes.

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