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Spatial dynamics of meningococcal meningitis in Niger: observed patterns in comparison with measles [PDF]

, 2011
SUMMARYThroughout the African meningitis belt, meningococcal meningitis outbreaks occur only during the dry season. Measles in Niger exhibits similar seasonality, where increased population density during the dry season probably escalates measles ...
N. BHARTI, Broutin, H, Tatem, A.J., Bharti, N., Ferrari, M.J., A. J. TATEM, Tatem, A J, H. BROUTIN, Grais, R.F., M. J. FERRARI, R. F. GRAIS, B. T. GRENFELL, Grenfell, B T, Djibo, A., Djibo, A, Grais, R F, Ferrari, M J, Bharti, N, A. DJIBO, Grenfell, Bryan T., Grenfell, B.T., Bharti, Nita, Broutin, H.   +22 more
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Meningitis epidemics shift in sub-Saharan belt

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
Meningococcal meningitis (MCM) poses a serious threat to public health in Africa. Epidemics appear irregularly every 5–12 years, especially in the regions across sub-Saharan ‘meningitis belt’. This study investigated the long-term spatiotemporal dynamics
Shi Zhao, Qianying Lin, Daihai He, Lewi Stone   +3 more
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Meningococcic Meningitis [PDF]

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1920
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Characterization of vaccine antigens of meningococcal serogroup W isolates from Ghana and Burkina Faso from 2003 to 2009 [PDF]

, 2014
Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of bacterial meningitis and a considerable health problem in the 25 countries of the 'African Meningitis Belt' that extends from Senegal in West Africa to Ethiopia in the East.
Calman MacLennan, Gerd Pluschke, Koeberling, Oliver, Oliver Koeberling, Ispasanie, Emma, MacLennan, Calman, Emma Ispasanie, Ali Sie, Abraham Hodgson, Pluschke, Gerd, Hodgson, Abraham, Sie, Ali, Pluschke G, MacLennan C, Ispasanie E, Sie A, Hodgson A, Koeberling O   +17 more
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Comparing laboratory surveillance with the notifiable diseases surveillance system in South Africa

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017
Objective: The aim of this study was to compare laboratory surveillance with the notifiable diseases surveillance system (NDSS) in South Africa. Methods: Data on three tracer notifiable diseases – measles, meningococcal meningitis, and typhoid – were ...
F.G. Benson, A. Musekiwa, L. Blumberg, L.C. Rispel   +3 more
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Clinical Case of Repeated Generalized Infection and Meningitis in Immunocompetent Child

Педиатрическая фармакология, 2021
Background. Meningococcal disease is socially significant, deadly infectious disease characterized by severe and unpredictable course. Clinical case description.
Mariya S. Vedyashkina, Anna M. Dubrovsky, Olga V. Lopatina, Svetlana V. Rychkova   +3 more
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Doença meningocócica: comparação entre formas clínicas Meningococcal disease: comparison between clinical forms

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2007
Visando avaliar formas clínicas da doença meningocócica, foram revistos 201 casos diagnosticados como doença meningocócica, em Hospital Universitário da Universidade Federal Fluminense; durante o período de 1971 a 1996, dos quais 185 preencheram os ...
Nádia Stella-Silva, Solange Artimos Oliveira, Keyla Belízia Feldman Marzochi   +2 more
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Incidence, carriage and case-carrier ratios for meningococcal meningitis in the African meningitis belt: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

PLoS ONE, 2015
BackgroundTo facilitate the interpretation of meningococcal meningitis epidemiology in the "African meningitis belt", we aimed at obtaining serogroup-specific pooled estimates of incidence, carriage and case-carrier ratios for meningococcal meningitis in
Thibaut Koutangni, Halima Boubacar Maïnassara, Judith E Mueller   +2 more
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Fatal meningococcal meningitis in a HIV-infected patient caused by serogroup C Neisseria meningitidis belonging to the non-hypervirulent clonal complex ST-60 (cc60)

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2011
Meningococcal strains belonging to clonal complex cc60 are not associated with hypervirulent lineages and were never reported as causing disease in Latin American countries.
Claudia Ferreira de Andrade, Biologist, Denise Cotrim da Cunha, MD, Veronica Cavalcanti, Biologist, Ivano de Filippis   +3 more
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Clonal waves of Neisseria colonisation and disease in the African meningitis belt: eight- year longitudinal study in northern Ghana. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2007
The Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana lies in the African "meningitis belt" where epidemics of meningococcal meningitis have been reoccurring every eight to 12 years for the last 100 years.
Julia Leimkugel, Abraham Hodgson, Abudulai Adams Forgor, Valentin Pflüger, Jean-Pierre Dangy, Tom Smith, Mark Achtman, Sébastien Gagneux, Gerd Pluschke   +8 more
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