Outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease caused by a meningococcus serogroup B in a nursery school, Wallonia, Belgium, 2018.
Although most invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) cases are sporadic without identified transmission links, outbreaks can occur. We report three cases caused by meningococcus B (MenB) at a Belgian nursery school over 9 months. The first two cases of IMD occurred in spring and summer 2018 in healthy children (aged 3-5 years) attending the same classroom. Chemoprophylaxis was given to close contacts of both cases following regional guidelines. The third case, a healthy child of similar age in the same class as a sibling of one case, developed disease in late 2018. Microbiological analyses revea... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Schlagwörter: | Belgium / Child / Preschool / Disease Outbreaks / Humans / Meningococcal Infections / Meningococcal Vaccines / Neisseria meningitidis / Serogroup B / Schools / Nursery / Serogroup / Meningococcus B / outbreak management / prolonged outbreak |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26599283 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/263746 |