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SUBMITTER: Ladhani SN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3310110 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ladhani Shamez N SN Lucidarme Jay J Newbold Lynne S LS Gray Stephen J SJ Carr Anthony D AD Findlow Jamie J Ramsay Mary E ME Kaczmarski Edward B EB Borrow Raymond R
Emerging infectious diseases 20120101 1
Enhanced national surveillance for invasive meningococcal disease in England and Wales identified an increase in laboratory-confirmed capsular group Y (MenY) disease from 34 cases in 2007 to 44 in 2008 and 65 in 2009. For cases diagnosed in 2009, patient median age at disease onset was 60 years; 39% of patients had underlying medical conditions, and 19% died. MenY isolates causing invasive disease during 2007-2009 belonged mainly to 1 of 4 clonal complexes (cc), cc23 (56% of isolates), cc174 (21 ...[more]