Evaluating the effect of targeted strategies as control tools for hypervirulent meningococcal C outbreaks: a case study from Tuscany, Italy, 2015 to 2016

BACKGROUND: Meningococcus (Neisseria meningitidis) is the causative bacteria of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD), a major cause of meningitis and sepsis. In 2015–16, an outbreak caused by serogroup C meningococci (MenC), belonging to the hyperinvasive strain ST-11(cc-11), resulted in 62 IMD case...

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Autores principales: Guzzetta, Giorgio, Ajelli, Marco, Miglietta, Alessandro, Fazio, Cecilia, Neri, Arianna, Merler, Stefano, Rezza, Giovanni, Stefanelli, Paola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2023
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10176827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37166763
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.19.2200650

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10176827/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37166763
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.19.2200650

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