We report about three unliked cases of meningococcal meningitis caused by the ST-11/ET-37 strain of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W. Two of the three cases, detected in Sicily on June and July 2014, were migrants from Mali and Eritrea. The third case was a fatal meningitis occurred on November 2014 in a 37 years old man, working in an immigrant center in Calabria. This report suggests that tetravalent conjugate vaccines (ACYW) should be actively offered to the staff of migrants’ reception centers.
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Stefanelli, P., Fazio, C., Neri, A., Rezza, G., Severoni, S., Vacca, P., … Giammanco, A. (2016). Imported and indigenous cases of invasive meningocococcal disease W:P1.5,2:F1-1: ST-11 in migrants’ reception centers. Italy, June-November 2014. In Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (Vol. 897, pp. 81–83). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/5584_2015_5006
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