| Title |
Molecular Characterization of Invasive Meningococcal Isolates from Countries in the African Meningitis Belt before Introduction of a Serogroup A Conjugate Vaccine
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, September 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0046019 |
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| Authors |
Dominique A. Caugant, Paul A. Kristiansen, Xin Wang, Leonard W. Mayer, Muhamed-Kheir Taha, Rasmata Ouédraogo, Denis Kandolo, Flabou Bougoudogo, Samba Sow, Laurence Bonte |
| Abstract |
The serogroup A conjugate meningococcal vaccine, MenAfriVac, was introduced in mass vaccination campaigns in December 2010 in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. In the coming years, vaccination will be extended to other African countries at risk of epidemics. To document the molecular characteristics of disease-causing meningococcal strains circulating in the meningitis belt of Africa before vaccine introduction, the World Health Organization Collaborating Centers on Meningococci in Europe and United States established a common strain collection of 773 isolates from cases of invasive meningococcal disease collected between 2004 and 2010 from 13 sub-Saharan countries. |
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| Egypt | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 100% |
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| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 48 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 29% |
| Researcher | 8 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 14% |
| Other | 3 | 6% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 7 | 14% |
| Unknown | 7 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 14 | 29% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 18% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 8 | 16% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 6% |
| Mathematics | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Unknown | 10 | 20% |