Giuseppe
Emeritus
Outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease in Goleni?w County, north-west Poland, March 2009 (Euro Surveill., abstract, edited)
[Source: Eurosurveillance.org, full text: <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19646">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 34, 26 August 2010
Surveillance and outbreak reports
Outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease in Goleni?w County, north-west Poland, March 2009
A Skoczyńska 1, I Wasko 1, A Kuch 1, A Gołębiewska 1, M Foryś 1, W Hryniewicz 1
1. National Reference Centre for Bacterial Meningitis, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Citation style for this article: Skoczyńska A, Wasko I, Kuch A, Gołębiewska A, Foryś M, Hryniewicz W. Outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease in Goleni?w County, north-west Poland, March 2009. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(34)
ii=19646. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19646
Date of submission: 01 February 2010
In March 2009, six cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) were reported in two communes of Goleni?w County in north-west Poland. The people affected were aged from seven to 25 years. The overall incidence rate in the county was eight per 100,000 population. All the patients recovered fully. No epidemiological links were established between the cases. All were infected with Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C, sequence type (ST) 11 and analysis of isolate DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism showed indistinguishable pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns. Sequencing of porA and fetA genes revealed that all isolates had PorA variant P1.5,2 and FetA variant F3-3. Based on epidemiological and microbiological data, the Polish Working Party on Meningococcal Infections took the decision to compulsorily vaccinate populations at highest risk in the region ? primarily people aged from 6 to 19 years.
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[Source: Eurosurveillance.org, full text: <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19646">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 34, 26 August 2010
Surveillance and outbreak reports
Outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease in Goleni?w County, north-west Poland, March 2009
A Skoczyńska 1, I Wasko 1, A Kuch 1, A Gołębiewska 1, M Foryś 1, W Hryniewicz 1
1. National Reference Centre for Bacterial Meningitis, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Citation style for this article: Skoczyńska A, Wasko I, Kuch A, Gołębiewska A, Foryś M, Hryniewicz W. Outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease in Goleni?w County, north-west Poland, March 2009. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(34)
ii=19646. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19646Date of submission: 01 February 2010
In March 2009, six cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) were reported in two communes of Goleni?w County in north-west Poland. The people affected were aged from seven to 25 years. The overall incidence rate in the county was eight per 100,000 population. All the patients recovered fully. No epidemiological links were established between the cases. All were infected with Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C, sequence type (ST) 11 and analysis of isolate DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism showed indistinguishable pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns. Sequencing of porA and fetA genes revealed that all isolates had PorA variant P1.5,2 and FetA variant F3-3. Based on epidemiological and microbiological data, the Polish Working Party on Meningococcal Infections took the decision to compulsorily vaccinate populations at highest risk in the region ? primarily people aged from 6 to 19 years.
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