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Outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease caused by a meningococcus serogroup B in a nursery school, Wallonia, Belgium, 2018
We report three cases caused by meningococcus B (MenB) at a Belgian nursery school over 9 months. The first two cases of IMD occurred in spring and summer 2018 in healthy children (aged 3-5 years) attending the same classroom. Chemoprophylaxis was given to close contacts of both cases following regional guidelines. The third case, a healthy child of similar age in the same class as a sibling of one case, developed disease in late 2018. Microbiological analyses revealed MenB with identical finetype clonal complex 269 for Case 1 and 3 (unavailable for Case 2). Antimicrobial susceptibility testing revealed no antibiotic resis...
Source: Euro Surveill - March 4, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: St éphanie Jacquinet Wesley Mattheus Sophie Quoilin Chlo é Wyndham-Thomas Charlotte Martin Dimitri Van der Linden Andr é Mulder Julie Fr ère Carole Schirvel Source Type: research
