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Case Reports
. 2016:897:81-3.
doi: 10.1007/5584_2015_5006.

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

Paola Stefanelli  1 , Cecilia Fazio  2 , Arianna Neri  2 , Giovanni Rezza  2 , Santino Severoni  3 , Paola Vacca  2 , Teresa Fasciana  4 , Alessandro Bisbano  5 , Francesca Di Bernardo  6 , Anna Giammanco  4
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Imported and Indigenous cases of Invasive Meningocococcal Disease W:P1.5,2:F1-1: ST-11 in migrants' reception centers. Italy, June-November 2014

Paola Stefanelli et al. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2016.

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.

Keywords: Migrant; Neisseria meningitidis; Serogroup W; Typing.

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