Temporal associations between national outbreaks of meningococcal serogroup W and C disease in the Netherlands and England: an observational cohort study

• Main Authors: Dr Mirjam J Knol, PhD (Author), Susan J M Hahné, PhD (Author), Jay Lucidarme, PhD (Author), Helen Campbell, MSc (Author), Hester E de Melker, PhD (Author), Stephen J Gray, PhD (Author), Prof Ray Borrow, FRCPath (Author), Shamez N Ladhani, MRCPCH (Author), Mary E Ramsay, FFPHM (Author), Arie van der Ende, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Since 2009, the incidence of meningococcal serogroup W disease has increased rapidly in the UK because of a single strain (the so-called original UK strain) belonging to the hypervirulent sequence type-11 clonal complex (cc11), with a variant outbreak strain (the so-called 2013 strain) e...