Epidemiological and Molecular Characteristics of a Highly Lethal Pneumococcal Meningitis Epidemic in Burkina Faso

Yaro, Seydou; Lourd, Mathilde; Traoré, Yves; Njanpop‐Lafourcade, Berthe‐Marie; Sawadogo, A; Sangaré, Lassana; Hien, A.; Ouédraogo, M.; Sanou, Oumarou; Parent du Châtelet, Isabelle; Koeck, J.-L.; D. Gessner, Bradford

doi:10.1086/506940

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Epidemiological and Molecular Characteristics of a Highly Lethal Pneumococcal Meningitis Epidemic in Burkina Faso

Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases • Aug 17, 2006

Authors:

Seydou Yaro

Mathilde Lourd

Yves Traoré

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Public health and clinical strategies for meningitis epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa usually assume that Neisseria meningitidis infection causes most disease. METHODS: During 24 months from 2002 to 2005, we collected clinical and laboratory information for suspected acute bacterial menin...

Subject

Serotype

Meningitis

Streptococcus pneumoniae

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