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Imported and Indigenous cases of Invasive Meningocococcal Disease W:P1.5,2:F1-1: ST-11 in migrants' reception centers. Italy, June-November 2014.

Alessandro BisbanoPaola VaccaArianna NeriGiovanni RezzaTeresa FascianaPaola StefanelliAnna GiammancoCecilia FazioFrancesca Di BernardoSantino Severoni

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Pediatricsmedicine.medical_specialtySettore MED/07 - Microbiologia E Microbiologia ClinicaNeisseria meningitidisSerogroup W Typing MigrantNeisseria meningitidis serogroupbusiness.industryNeisseria meningitidismedicine.diseasemedicine.disease_causeIndigenousMeningococcal meningitisMedicinebusinessSocioeconomicsMeningitis

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We report about three unliked cases of meningococcal meningitis caused by the ST-11/ET-37 strain of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W. Two of the three cases, detected in Sicily on June and July 2014, were migrants from Mali and Eritrea. The third case was a fatal meningitis occurred on November 2014 in a 37 years old man, working in an immigrant center in Calabria. This report suggests that tetravalent conjugate vaccines (ACYW) should be actively offered to the staff of migrants’ reception centers.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2015-11-14
10.1007/5584_2015_5006http://hdl.handle.net/10447/238226