ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2018
Outbreak of Pneumococcal Meningitis, Paoua Subprefecture, Central African Republic, 2016-2017.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Global Case Fatality of Bacterial Meningitis During an 80-Year Period: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2024Pooled it
- Emergence of pneumococcal meningitis outbreak in Northern Togo in 2023, lessons learned and challenges.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Strategies for controlling pneumococcal disease and outbreaks during humanitarian emergencies.Nature medicine · 2024Article
- Serotype 1 pneumococcus: epidemiology, genomics, and disease mechanisms.Trends in microbiology · 2022Review
- Hotspot or blind spot? Historical perspectives on surveillance and response to epidemics in the Central African Republic.International journal of public health · 2020Article
- Future Directions for Meningitis Surveillance and Vaccine Evaluation in the Meningitis Belt of Sub-Saharan Africa.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2019Review
- Seasonal upsurge of pneumococcal meningitis in the Central African Republic.Wellcome open research · 2018Article
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Abstract
We report a pneumococcal meningitis outbreak in the Central African Republic (251 suspected cases; 60 confirmed by latex agglutination test) in 2016-2017. Case-fatality rates (10% for confirmed case-patients) were low. In areas where a recent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine campaign was conducted, a smaller proportion of cases was seen in youngest children.
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