title: Imported and Indigenous cases of Invasive Meningocococcal Disease W:P1.5,2:F1-1: ST-11 in migrants' reception centers. Italy, June-November 2014.
abstract: We report about three unliked cases of meningococcal meningitis caused by the ST-11/ET-37 strain of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W. Two of the three cases, detected in Sicily on June and July 2014, were migrants from Mali and Eritrea. The third case was a fatal meningitis occurred on November 2014 in a 37 years old man, working in an immigrant center in Calabria. This report suggests that tetravalent conjugate vaccines (ACYW) should be actively offered to the staff of migrants' reception centers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious, Parasitic & Immuno-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome, Italy. paola.stefanelli@iss.it.
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stefanelli
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious, Parasitic & Immuno-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fazio
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious, Parasitic & Immuno-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Arianna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Neri
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious, Parasitic & Immuno-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rezza
authors.affiliation: Coordinator Public Health and Migration, Division of Policy and Governance for Health and Well-being, European Office for Investment for Health and Development WHO Europe, Venice, Italy.
authors.forename: Santino
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Severoni
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious, Parasitic & Immuno-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vacca
authors.affiliation: Department of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother and Child Care "G. D'Alessandro", University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fasciana
authors.affiliation: Epidemiology Unit ASP Crotone, Calabria, Italy.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bisbano
authors.affiliation: U.O.C. of Microbiology, ARNAS General Hospital "Civico, Di Cristina e Benfratelli", Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Di Bernardo
authors.affiliation: Department of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother and Child Care "G. D'Alessandro", University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giammanco
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D019017:Eritrea; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008302:Mali; D008585:Meningitis, Meningococcal / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D038582:Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup W-135 / Q000302:isolation & purification*
keywords: Migrant; Neisseria meningitidis; Serogroup W; Typing