US College Students Are at Increased Risk for Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease | Zendy

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US College Students Are at Increased Risk for Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease

Author(s) -

Gary S. Marshall,

Amanda F. Dempsey,

Amit Srivastava,

Raúl Istúriz

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

journal of the pediatric infectious diseases society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.269

H-Index - 31

eISSN - 2048-7207

pISSN - 2048-7193

DOI - 10.1093/jpids/piz024

Subject(s) - medicine , meningococcal disease , incidence (geometry) , outbreak , disease control , disease , pediatrics , neisseria meningitidis , environmental health , virology , physics , biology , bacteria , optics , genetics

Publicly available surveillance data, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, and other sources suggest that college students in the United States are at increased risk for meningococcus serogroup B (MenB) disease. US surveillance data from 2015 to 2017 show that the incidence of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) was greater among college students than among those not attending college; the average annual incidence of MenB disease was >5-fold higher among college students, and all college IMD outbreaks between 2011 and March 2019 were caused by MenB.

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