Meningitis Serogroup W135 Outbreak, Burkina Faso, 2002

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2007 Jun 8

PMID 17553237

Citations 28

Authors

Nicolas Nathan

Angela M C Rose

Dominique Legros

Sylvestre R M Tiendrebeogo

Catherine Bachy

Egil Bjorlow

Peter Firmenich

Philippe J Guerin

Dominique A Caugant

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Abstract

In 2002, the largest epidemic of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 occurred in Burkina Faso. The highest attack rate was in children <5 years of age. We describe cases from 1 district and evaluate the performance of the Pastorex test, which had good sensitivity (84%) and specificity (89%) compared with culture or PCR.

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