Uncommon mixed outbreak of pneumococcal and meningococcal meningitis in Jirapa District, Upper West Region, Ghana, 2016

OBJECTIVE: The Jirapa District in Ghana falls within the African meningitis belt where over 500 million people are at risk of epidemic meningitis. The district suffered an outbreak of Neisseria meningitides, W (NMW) in 2012 and a mixed outbreak of Streptococcus pneumonia and NMW in early 2016. We in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Ghana Med J
Hauptverfasser: Domo, Nuoh R, Nuolabong, Culbert, Nyarko, Kofi M, Kenu, Ernest, Balagumyetime, Phoebe, Konnyebal, Godfrey, Noora, Charles L, Ameme, Kofi D, Wurapa, Fred, Afari, Edwin
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Ghana Medical Association 2017
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5870784/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29622828
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