TY - JOUR AU - Massenet, Denis AU - Inrombe, Jermias AU - Mevoula, Dave-Etienne AU - Nicolas, Pierre T1 - Serogroup W135 Meningococcal Meningitis, Northern Cameroon, 2007–2008 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2009 VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 340 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We analyzed results of recent microbiologic surveillance of meningitis in northern Cameroon. During the 2007 and 2008 meningitis seasons, all 57 identified meningococcal isolates were serogroup W135. This situation might indicate that the area is experiencing a period between epidemic waves due to 2 different clones of serogroup A meningococci. KW - Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 KW - meningitis epidemiology KW - surveillance KW - Cameroon KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1502.080988 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/2/08-0988_article ER - End of Reference