Meningococcal meningitis (MCM) poses a serious threat to public health in Africa. Epidemics appear irregularly every 5–12 years, especially in the regions across sub-Saharan ‘meningitis belt’. This study investigated the long-term spatiotemporal dynamics of MCM. It appears that dominant epidemic outbreaks in the meningitis belt spread from west to east over the study period 2006–2016.
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Zhao, S., Lin, Q., He, D., & Stone, L. (2018). Meningitis epidemics shift in sub-Saharan belt. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 68, 79–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2018.01.020
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