Volume 13, Number 6—June 2007

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Meningitis Serogroup W135 Outbreak, Burkina Faso, 2002

Nicolas Nathan*¹, Angela M.C. Rose*, Dominique Legros*, Sylvestre R.M. Tiendrebeogo†, Catherine Bachy*, Egil Bjørløw‡§, Peter Firmenich¶, Philippe J. Guerin* , and Dominique A. Caugant§#

Author affiliations: *Epicentre, Paris, France; †Ministry of Health, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; ‡European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training, Oslo, Norway; §Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway; ¶Médecins sans Frontières, Bereldange, Luxembourg; #World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Meningococci, Oslo, Norway;

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Figure 1

Figure 1. Number of meningitis cases (N = 1,325) and deaths reported during weeks 6–18 (February 4–May 5) at Pissy Medical Health Centre, Burkina Faso, 2002.

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¹Deceased.

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