Euro Surveill. A cluster of meningococcal disease caused by rifampicin-resistant C meningococci in France, April 2012

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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 34, 23 August 2012

Rapid communications

A cluster of meningococcal disease caused by rifampicin-resistant C meningococci in France, April 2012

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I Mounchetrou Njoya ()<SUP>1</SUP>, A E Deghmane<SUP>2</SUP>, M K Taha<SUP>2</SUP>, H Isnard<SUP>1</SUP>, I Parent du Ch?telet<SUP>3</SUP>

1. French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Institut de Veille Sanitaire; InVS), Ile-de-France and Champagne-Ardenne, France
2. Institut Pasteur, National Reference Center for Meningococci, Paris, France
3. French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Institut de Veille Sanitaire; InVS), Saint Maurice, France

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Citation style for this article: Mounchetrou Njoya I, Deghmane AE, Taha MK, Isnard H, Parent du Ch?telet I. A cluster of meningococcal disease caused by rifampicin-resistant C meningococci in France, April 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(34)ii=20254. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20254
Date of submission: 10 August 2012 <HR>In April 2012, a cluster of two cases of meningococcal disease caused by rifampicin-resistant C meningococci was reported in the Champagne-Ardenne region, France. The two cases occurred in a student population living in the same town but studying at different schools. Bacteriological and epidemiological investigations of cases have shown that the isolates of both cases were non-differentiable.
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