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Meningococcal carriage among a university student population - United States, 2015.
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- Response to a Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease Case Among Military Trainees.Open forum infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Evaluation of pharyngeal carriage ofNew microbes and new infections · 2022Article
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- Risk factors for carriage of meningococcus in third-level students in Ireland: an unsupervised machine learning approach.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2021Article
- Increasing awareness and uptake of the MenB vaccine on a large university campus.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2021Article
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Is Associated With Increased Meningococcal Carriage Acquisition Among First-year Students in 2 South African Universities.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
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objectivesSeveral outbreaks of serogroup B meningococcal disease have occurred among university students in recent years. In the setting of high coverage of the quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine and prior to widespread use of serogroup B meningococcal vaccines among adolescents, we conducted surveys to characterize the prevalence and molecular characteristics of meningococcal carriage among university students.
methodsTwo cross-sectional oropharyngeal carriage surveys were conducted among undergraduates at a Rhode Island university. Isolates were characterized using slide agglutination, real-time polymerase chain reaction (rt-PCR), and whole genome sequencing. Adjusted prevalence ratios and 95% confidence intervals were calculated using Poisson regression to determine risk factors for carriage.
resultsA total of 1837 oropharyngeal specimens were obtained from 1478 unique participants. Overall carriage prevalence was 12.7-14.6% during the two survey rounds, with 1.8-2.6% for capsular genotype B, 0.9-1.0% for capsular genotypes C, W, or Y, and 9.9-10.8% for nongroupable strains by rt-PCR. Meningococcal carriage was associated with being male, smoking, party or club attendance, recent antibiotic use (inverse correlation), and recent respiratory infections.
conclusionsIn this university setting, the majority of meningococcal carriage was due to nongroupable strains, followed by serogroup B. Further evaluation is needed to understand the dynamics of serogroup B carriage and disease among university students.
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