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Case Reports
. 2015 Jun 12;64(22):606-7.

Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease Outbreak and Carriage Evaluation at a College - Rhode Island, 2015

Heidi M Soeters, Lucy A McNamara, Melissa Whaley, Xin Wang, Nicole Alexander-Scott, Koren V Kanadanian, Catherine M Kelleher, Jessica MacNeil, Stacey W Martin, Nathan Raines, Steven Sears, Cynthia Vanner, Jeni Vuong, Utpala Bandy, Kenneth Sicard, Manisha Patel; Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Case Reports

Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease Outbreak and Carriage Evaluation at a College - Rhode Island, 2015

Heidi M Soeters et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. .

Abstract

On February 2, 2015, the Rhode Island Department of Health was notified of a case of meningococcal disease in a male undergraduate student at Providence College. Three days later, a second case was reported in a male undergraduate with no contact with the first student, indicating an attack rate of 44 cases per 100,000 students, nearly 500 times higher than the national incidence of 0.15 cases per 100,000 among persons aged 17-22 years (Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC, unpublished data, 2013). Both cases were caused by a rare outbreak strain of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B (ST-9069); neither case was fatal. In response to the outbreak, potential contacts received antibiotic chemoprophylaxis, and a mass vaccination campaign with a recently licensed serogroup B meningococcal (MenB) vaccine was implemented. In collaboration with CDC, the first phase of a meningococcal carriage evaluation was undertaken.

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