Epidemiology and Meningococcal Serogroup Distribution in the United States

Targeted vaccination of teenagers following continued rapid endemic expansion of a single meningococcal group W clone (sequence type 11 clonal complex), United Kingdom 2015

“…Serogroup Y infection is the only serogroup in which an increasing trend was observed, in line with recent findings from around Europe [65]. ECDC currently has no complete overview of the surveillance of serogroup Y in place in the Member States [66]. Increasing the quality of surveillance and the availability of molecular typing methods should eventually also lead to improved characterisation of serogroup Y isolates in Europe.…”

The changing epidemiology of meningococcal disease in North America 1945–2010

“…7 The current epidemiology of IMD and the serogroups responsible for causing disease vary both globally and within North America. [8][9][10][11][12] Recent reviews of epidemiology focus on more contemporary data. However, the objective of the current review is to capture the changes over time in serogroup distribution, incidence, mortality and vaccination coverage relating to IMD in the USA and Canada during the last half century.…”

Increase of meningococcal serogroup Y cases in Europe: A reason for concern?

“…Michael Bröker, 1, * Susanne Jacobsson, 2 Lisa DeTora, 3 11 These changes have reflected both an absolute increase in the numbers of MenY cases as well as a shift in the proportion of IMD caused by various serogroups. We report recent epidemiology data collected by various national reference laboratories, using locally established surveillance methods.…”