Sunday, 25 August 2019

PRO/EDR> Meningitis, meningococcal - UK: non-group, cipro-resist, ex Saudi Arabia

Meningitis - Neisseria -- United Kingdom
Zumla A, Memish ZA
Editorial
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On 22 Jul [2019], Public Health England issued an important public health announcement, the unusual occurrence in the UK of 3 people with non-groupable meningococcal infections connected with recent travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia (1). Two presented with conjunctivitis just days after returning from a pilgrimage. The 3rd person, who was a close contact of one case but had not travelled to Mecca, developed invasive meningococcal disease (1). _Neisseria

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6640333&promed&0

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