Open AccessSurvival and sequelae of meningococcal meningitis in Ghana
Author(s) -
Abraham Hodgson,
Thomas Smith,
Sébastien Gagneux,
Isaac Akumah,
Martin Adjuik,
Gerd Pluschke,
Fred Binka,
Blaise Genton
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/30.6.1440
Subject(s) - medicine , sequela , meningitis , pediatrics , hearing loss , audiometry , epidemiology , odds ratio , psychiatry , audiology
Meningococcal meningitis epidemics are frequent in the Sahel zone of Africa but there is little information on the frequency of long-term sequelae. We analysed excess mortality in the two years following the 1997 epidemic in northern Ghana and carried out a case-control study to assess sequelae in the survivors.
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