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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2019

Cocirculation of Hajj and non-Hajj strains among serogroup W meningococci in Italy, 2000 to 2016.

Cecilia Fazio, Arianna Neri, Paola Vacca, Andrea Ciammaruconi, Milena Arghittu, Anna Maria Barbui, Caterina Vocale, Paola Bernaschi, Patrizia Isola, Irene Alessandra Galanti and 7 more

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Cecilia FazioDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Arianna NeriDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Paola VaccaDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Andrea CiammaruconiMolecular Biology Section, Army Medical and Veterinary Research Center, Rome, Italy.
Milena ArghittuMicrobiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
Anna Maria BarbuiMicrobiology and Virology Laboratory, Molinette Hospital, Turin, Italy.
Caterina VocaleUnit of Clinical Microbiology, Regional Reference Centre for Microbiological Emergencies, St. Orsola Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
Paola BernaschiMicrobiology Laboratory, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy.
Patrizia IsolaClinical Pathology Department, Azienda USL 6, Livorno, Italy.
Irene Alessandra GalantiMicrobiology Laboratory, Azienda USL Toscana sud est, Arezzo, Italy.
Antonella MencacciMedical Microbiology Section, Dept. of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
Rosella De NittisClinical Pathology Department, University Hospital, Foggia, Italy.
Maria ChironnaBiomedical Sciences and Human Oncology Department - Hygiene Section, University Hospital, Bari, Italy.
Anna GiammancoDepartment of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother and Child Care "G. D'Alessandro", University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Elisabetta PaganiMicrobiology and Virology Laboratory, Azienda Sanitaria dell'Alto Adige, Bolzano, Italy.
Alessandro BisbanoEpidemiology Unit ASP Crotone, Italy.
Paola StefanelliDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Italy, B and C are the predominant serogroups among meningococci causing invasive diseases. Nevertheless, in the period from 2013 to 2016, an increase in serogroup W

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AdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overChildChild, PreschoolDisease OutbreaksFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornItalyMaleMeningococcal InfectionsMiddle AgedNeisseria meningitidiscapsular serogroup Wclonal complex 11invasive bacterial infectionsinvasive meningococcal diseaseItalymolecular methodsnational surveillance systemNeisseria meningitidis

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PMID30696530
PMCPMC6352001

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