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  Clonal waves of Neisseria colonisation and disease in the African meningitis belt: Eight-year longitudinal study in northern Ghana

Leimkugel, J., Hodgson, A., Forgor, A. A., Pflüger, V., Dangy, J.-P., Smith, T., et al. (2007). Clonal waves of Neisseria colonisation and disease in the African meningitis belt: Eight-year longitudinal study in northern Ghana. PLoS Medicine, 4(3): e101, pp. 535-544. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040101.

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Leimkugel, Julia, Autor
Hodgson, Abraham, Autor
Forgor, Abudulai Adams, Autor
Pflüger, Valentin, Autor
Dangy, Jean-Pierre, Autor
Smith, Tom, Autor
Achtman, Mark1, Autor           
Gagneux, Sébastien, Autor
Pluschke, Gerd, Autor
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1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Max Planck Society, ou_1664147              

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 Zusammenfassung: Background The Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana lies in the African “meningitis belt” where epidemics of meningococcal meningitis have been reoccurring every eight to 12 years for the last 100 years. The dynamics of meningococcal colonisation and disease are incompletely understood, and hence we embarked on a long-term study to determine how levels of colonisation with different bacterial serogroups change over time, and how the patterns of disease relate to such changes. Methods and Findings Between February 1998 and November 2005, pharyngeal carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in the Kassena-Nankana District was studied by twice-yearly colonisation surveys. Meningococcal disease was monitored throughout the eight-year study period, and patient isolates were compared to the colonisation isolates. The overall meningococcal colonisation rate of the study population was 6.0%. All culture-confirmed patient isolates and the majority of carriage isolates were associated with three sequential waves of colonisation with encapsulated (A ST5, X ST751, and A ST7) meningococci. Compared to industrialised countries, the colonising meningococcal population was less constant in genotype composition over time and was genetically less diverse during the peaks of the colonisation waves, and a smaller proportion of the isolates was nonserogroupable. We observed a broad age range in the healthy carriers, resembling that of meningitis patients during large disease epidemics. Conclusions The observed lack of a temporally stable and genetically diverse resident pharyngeal flora of meningococci might contribute to the susceptibility to meningococcal disease epidemics of residents in the African meningitis belt. Because capsular conjugate vaccines are known to impact meningococcal carriage, effects on herd immunity and potential serogroup replacement should be monitored following the introduction of such vaccines.

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Sprache(n): eng - English
 Datum: 2007-03
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ISI: 000245243700021
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040101
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Titel: PLoS Medicine
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Seiten: - Band / Heft: 4 (3) Artikelnummer: e101 Start- / Endseite: 535 - 544 Identifikator: ISSN: 1549-1277