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Meningococcal Disease Surveillance and Trends


Meningococcal Disease Surveillance and Trends - CDC

U.S. cases of meningococcal disease have increased sharply since 2021 and now exceed pre-pandemic levels. In 2023, 438 confirmed and probable ...

Clinical Overview of Meningococcal Disease - CDC

Cases of meningococcal disease in the United States have increased sharply since 2021 and now exceed pre-pandemic levels. Keep Reading: ...

State-Based Surveillance to Determine Trends in Meningococcal ...

meningitidis), the organism that causes meningococcal disease (MD), is a leading cause of bacterial meningitis in the U.S. The estimated number of cases ...

Surveillance and updates for meningococcal disease

Surveillance and updates for meningococcal disease · Disease data from ECDC Surveillance Atlas · Archived enhanced surveillance reports · More about surveillance ...

Disease surveillance | Meningococcal disease | Health topics - EMRO

A regional network for surveillance of bacterial meningitis among children less than 5 years of age with an emphasis on Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).

Current Epidemiology and Trends in Meningococcal Disease ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) receives reports of meningococcal disease cases through 2 surveillance systems. Passive surveillance is ...

Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease worldwide from ...

Robust surveillance programs are essential for rapid detection of outbreak events and monitoring trends that define the disease burden over time [11].

Increase in Invasive Meningococcal Disease February 23, 2024

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is reporting an increase of invasive meningococcal disease cases since November 2023.

Meningococcal disease

The bacteria occasionally invade the body and cause meningococcal infection, which is an acute severe bacterial infection. Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) ...

Meningococcal Disease - Surveillance and Investigation Protocol

Invasive meningococcal disease is an infection caused by a bacteria called Neisseria meningitidis, otherwise known as meningococcus. The disease can be severe ...

Ensuring effective meningitis surveillance

Early detection and rapid diagnosis is essential, for individual patient management, as well as for management of epidemics.

Surveillance and control of meningococcal disease in the COVID-19 ...

Surveillance and control of meningococcal disease remains robust across various countries. However, antibiotic-resistant N. meningitidis strains ...

Meningococcal Disease - LA County Department of Public Health

Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is an uncommon but severe infection caused by bacterium Neisseria meningitidis. IMD most often presents as meningitis ...

Meningococcal Invasive Disease | Texas DSHS

Texas Trends. The number of invasive meningococcal disease cases reached a high of 203 (1.0 cases per 100,000 population) in 2001. Overall, the number of ...

Meningococcal disease surveillance in the Asia–Pacific region (2020)

The degree of surveillance data and control strategies for invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) varies across the Asia–Pacific region.

Current Epidemiology and Trends in Meningococcal Disease ...

Surveillance for meningococcal disease is essential to moni- tor and evaluate changes in disease incidence, to understand the burden of meningococcal disease, ...

Communicable Disease Service | Meningococcal Invasive ... - NJ.gov

meningitidis serogroup Y. The NJDOH Communicable Disease Service has observed a similar trend in NJ. In 2023, 17 total confirmed meningococcal disease cases ...

Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Adolescents and Young Adults

Active surveillance for invasive meningococcal infection was initiated in Maryland on November 1, 1991, as part of the Maryland Bacterial Invasive Disease ...

Meningococcal disease in North America: Updates from the Global ...

MenB vaccination was used in 2014 with success in one region in Quebec to control an outbreak that had persisted since 2003. The US and Canada have robust NIPs, ...

Invasive Meningococcal Disease - Public Health Ontario

IMD can lead to swelling of tissues surrounding the brain (meningitis) or bloodstream infection and causes complications such as hearing loss, ...