Increase in Meningococcal Serogroup W Disease, Victoria, Australia, 2013–2015
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In Victoria, Australia, invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W increased from 4% of all cases in 2013 to 30% in 2015. This increase resulted largely from strains similar to those in the serogroup W sequence type 11 clonal complex, previously described in the United Kingdom and South America.
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Rise in invasive serogroup W meningococcal disease in Australia 2013-2015.
Since 2013, there has been an increase in the number of notified cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) due to serogroup W (MenW) in Australia. In response to this observed increase, the Communicable Diseases Network Australia convened a working group in 2015 to collate and analyse the epidemiology of MenW disease nationally. Enhanced surveillance data collected by jurisdictions were col...
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The diagram illustrates the phylogenetic relationship between isolates based on core genome single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Victorian MenW ST11 isolates demonstrate region-specific clustering, and the close relationship of Victorian MenW strains (in green) to the United Kingdome South American cluster is shown. (Numerical values for the Victorian isolates represent the number of isolate...
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