Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2010)

Cluster of Serogroup W135 Meningococci, Southeastern Florida, 2008–2009

  • Timothy J. Doyle,
  • Alvaro Mejia-Echeverry,
  • Paul Fiorella,
  • Fermin Leguen,
  • John Livengood,
  • Robyn Kay,
  • Richard Hopkins

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1601.091026
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 1
pp. 113 – 115

Abstract

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Recently, 14 persons in southeastern Florida were identified with Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 invasive infections. All isolates tested had matching or near-matching pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns and belonged to the multilocus sequence type 11 clonal complex. The epidemiologic investigation suggested recent endemic transmission of this clonal complex in southeastern Florida.

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