Abstract
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.
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Acknowledgments
We thank Luigina Ambrosio, Dept. of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, for technical assistance.
This publication made use of the Neisseria Multi Locus Sequence Typing website (http://pubmlst.org/neisseria/) developed by Keith Jolley and sited at the University of Oxford (Jolley and Maiden 2010). The development of this site has been funded by the Wellcome Trust and European Union.
This work was partially funded by Ministry of Health progetto CCM “Sorveglianza delle malattie batteriche invasive da N. meningitidis, H. influenzae e S. pneumoniae”, 2014.
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Stefanelli, P. et al. (2015). Imported and Indigenous cases of Invasive Meningocococcal Disease W:P1.5,2:F1-1: ST-11 in migrants’ reception centers. Italy, June-November 2014. In: Donelli, G. (eds) Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology(), vol 897. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/5584_2015_5006
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