Outbreak of Pneumococcal Meningitis, Paoua Subprefecture, Central African Republic, 2016–2017

We report a pneumococcal meningitis outbreak in the Central African Republic (251 suspected cases; 60 confirmed by latex agglutination test) in 2016–2017. Case-fatality rates (10% for confirmed case-patients) were low. In areas where a recent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine campaign was conducted, a...

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Autores principales: Coldiron, Matthew E., Touré, Oumar, Frank, Thierry, Bouygues, Nathalie, Grais, Rebecca F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6106441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30124413
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2409.171058
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author Coldiron, Matthew E.
Touré, Oumar
Frank, Thierry
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Grais, Rebecca F.
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description We report a pneumococcal meningitis outbreak in the Central African Republic (251 suspected cases; 60 confirmed by latex agglutination test) in 2016–2017. Case-fatality rates (10% for confirmed case-patients) were low. In areas where a recent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine campaign was conducted, a smaller proportion of cases was seen in youngest children.
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spelling pubmed-61064412018-09-01 Outbreak of Pneumococcal Meningitis, Paoua Subprefecture, Central African Republic, 2016–2017 Coldiron, Matthew E. Touré, Oumar Frank, Thierry Bouygues, Nathalie Grais, Rebecca F. Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch We report a pneumococcal meningitis outbreak in the Central African Republic (251 suspected cases; 60 confirmed by latex agglutination test) in 2016–2017. Case-fatality rates (10% for confirmed case-patients) were low. In areas where a recent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine campaign was conducted, a smaller proportion of cases was seen in youngest children. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6106441/ /pubmed/30124413 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2409.171058 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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