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EPIDEMICS OF MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE SEROGROUP C IN SALVADOR, BRAZIL
Neisseria meningitidis
Epidemia
Vacina
Vigilância
Líquido cefalorraquidiano
Humanos
Neisseria Meningitidis
Epidemics
Vaccination
Surveillance
Cerebrospinal fluid
Humans
Affilliation
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz. Salvador, BA, Brasil / Municipal Secretary of Health of Salvador. Salvador, BA, Brazil
Pan American Health Organization. Brasilia, DF, Brazil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz. Salvador, BA, Brasil / Federal University of Bahia. School of Pharmacy. Salvador, BA, Brazil
Pan American Health Organization. Brasilia, DF, Brazil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz. Salvador, BA, Brasil / Federal University of Bahia. School of Pharmacy. Salvador, BA, Brazil
Abstract
Epidemics of bacterial meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis were first reported in Brazil in
1920.Following the predominance of meningococcal serogroup B during the 1990s, serogroup C
outbreaks emerged throughout Brazil after 2000, gradually replacing B as the most prevalent
serogroup. During the first semester of 2010, unusually high numbers of meningococcal disease
cases and deaths among persons older than 10 years occurred in the city of Salvador, leading
the state immunization program to conduct mass vaccination of city residents 10 to 24 years of
age from May to August 2010. We analyzed data from meningitis surveillance in Salvador in 2010
Keywords in Portuguese
Meningite meningococicaNeisseria meningitidis
Epidemia
Vacina
Vigilância
Líquido cefalorraquidiano
Humanos
Keywords
Meningococcal MeningitisNeisseria Meningitidis
Epidemics
Vaccination
Surveillance
Cerebrospinal fluid
Humans
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