| Chapter title |
Imported and Indigenous cases of Invasive Meningocococcal Disease W:P1.5,2:F1-1:ST-11 in migrants' reception centers. Italy, June-November 2014.
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| Chapter number | 5006 |
| Book title |
Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health
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| Published in |
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, November 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/5584_2015_5006 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-926319-9, 978-3-31-926320-5
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| Authors |
Stefanelli, Paola, Fazio, Cecilia, Neri, Arianna, Rezza, Giovanni, Severoni, Santino, Vacca, Paola, Fasciana, Teresa, Bisbano, Alessandro, Di Bernardo, Francesca, Giammanco, Anna, Paola Stefanelli, Cecilia Fazio, Arianna Neri, Giovanni Rezza, Santino Severoni, Paola Vacca, Teresa Fasciana, Alessandro Bisbano, Francesca Di Bernardo, Anna Giammanco |
| Editors |
Gianfranco Donelli |
| 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. |
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| Student > Master | 5 | 18% |
| Researcher | 5 | 18% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
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| Linguistics | 1 | 4% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1 | 4% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 2 | 7% |
| Unknown | 10 | 36% |