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Outbreak of Neisseria Meningitidis, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Overview
Journal Emerg Infect Dis
Specialty Infectious Diseases
Date 2002 May 9
PMID 11996690
Citations 13
Authors
Gregory J Tyrrell
Linda Chui
Marcia Johnson
Nicholas Chang
Robert P Rennie
James A Talbot
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Abstract

From December 1999 to April 2001, the greater Edmonton region had 61 cases of invasive meningococcal infection, two fatal. The outbreak was due to Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C, electrophoretic type 15, serotype 2a. Analysis of the strains showed that 50 of 56 culture-confirmed cases were due to a single clone and close relatives of this clone. This strain had not been previously identified in the province of Alberta dating back to January 1997.

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