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

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Stefanelli P, Fazio C, Neri A, Rezza G, Severoni S, Vacca P, Fasciana T, Bisbano A, Di Bernardo F, and Giammanco A

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Adolescent, Adult, Eritrea, Female, Humans, Italy, Male, Mali, Meningitis, Meningococcal etiology, Emigrants and Immigrants, Meningitis, Meningococcal microbiology, Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup W-135 isolation & purification
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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2016
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