Outbreak of Neisseria meningitidis C in a Brazilian oil refinery involving an adjacent community

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 88-92

  Liphaus, Bernadete L ^a   Cappeletti Gonçalves Okai, Maria Inês ^a   Silva Delemos, Ana Paula ^b   Gorla, Maria Cecília ^b   Rodriguez Fernandes, Miriam ^b   Pacola, Márcia Regina ^c   Fernandez Collucci, Maria Ângela ^d   Matsumoto Shinkai, Iara Akemi ^d   Takenori Higa, Fábio ^b   Ferreira Catani, Cleide ^b   Gonçalves Lemes Marques, Eneida ^b   Marques Pinto Carvalhanas, Telma Regina ^a  

^a Ctro Vigilancia Epidemiol Prof Alexandre Vranjac Coord Contr Doencas Sec Estado Saude S Paulo   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^c Grupo de Vigilância Epidemiológica GVE XVII   (Brazil)

^d Vigilância Epidemiológica Do Município de Paulínia ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Meningococcal disease; Neisseria meningitidis outbreak; Serogroup C Neisseria meningitidis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTER IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OIL INDUSTRY; PHENOTYPE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; VACCINATION;

ADULT; BRAZIL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874208384     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2012.05.009     Document Type: Article

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