PRO/EDR> Meningitis, meningococcal – Nigeria (02): serogroup C, MSF, 2013-2014, follow-up

Meningitis – Neisseria — Worldwide/Unknown
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Background: _Neisseria meningitidis_ serogroup C (NmC) outbreaks occur infrequently in the African meningitis belt; the most recent report of an outbreak of this serogroup was in Burkina Faso, 1979. Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) has been responding to outbreaks of meningitis in northwest Nigeria since 2007 with no reported cases of serogroup C from 2007-2012. MenAfrivac (R), a serogroup A conjugate vaccine, was first used for mass vaccination in northwest Nigeria in late