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Meningitis Serogroup W135 Outbreak, Burkina Faso, 2002

2007; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Volume: 13; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3201/eid1306.060940

1080-6059

Nicolas Nathan, Angela Rose, Dominique Legros, S Tiendrébéogo, Catherine Bachy, Egil Bjørløw, Peter Firmenich, Philippe J. Guérin, Dominique A. Caugant,

Amoebic Infections and Treatments

Abstract In 2002, the largest epidemic of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 occurred in Burkina Faso. The highest attack rate was in children <5 years of age. We describe cases from 1 district and evaluate the performance of the Pastorex test, which had good sensitivity (84%) and specificity (89%) compared with culture or PCR.