TY - JOUR AU - Doyle, Timothy J. AU - Mejia-Echeverry, Alvaro AU - Fiorella, Paul AU - Leguen, Fermin AU - Livengood, John AU - Kay, Robyn AU - Hopkins, Richard T1 - Cluster of Serogroup W135 Meningococci, Southeastern Florida, 2008–2009 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 1 SP - 113 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Recently, 14 persons in southeastern Florida were identified with Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 invasive infections. All isolates tested had matching or near-matching pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns and belonged to the multilocus sequence type 11 clonal complex. The epidemiologic investigation suggested recent endemic transmission of this clonal complex in southeastern Florida. KW - Meningococcal disease KW - serogroup W135 KW - bacteria KW - Florida KW - outbreak KW - dispatch KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1601.091026 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/1/09-1026_article ER - End of Reference