Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2016)

Increase in Meningococcal Serogroup W Disease, Victoria, Australia, 2013–2015

  • Kylie S. Carville,
  • Kerrie Stevens,
  • Asma Sohail,
  • Lucinda J. Franklin,
  • Katherine A. Bond,
  • Aicha Brahmi,
  • Finn Romanes,
  • Katherine S. Ong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2210.151935
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 10
pp. 1785 – 1787

Abstract

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In Victoria, Australia, invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W increased from 4% of all cases in 2013 to 30% in 2015. This increase resulted largely from strains similar to those in the serogroup W sequence type 11 clonal complex, previously described in the United Kingdom and South America.

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