Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Outbreak of Neisseria meningitidis, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Gregory J. Tyrrell*†

, Linda Chui*, Marcia Johnson‡, Nicholas Chang*, Robert P. Rennie*†, James A. Talbot*†, and The Edmonton Meningococcal Study Group

Author affiliations: *The Provincial Laboratory of Public Health for Alberta, Alberta, Canada; †The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; ‡The Capital Health Authority, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Neisseria meningitidis cases, Edmonton, Alberta, January 1997 to May 2001.* *Cluster 4 refers to clusters derived from restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns, designated in Figure 2.

Figure 1. . Neisseria meningitidis cases, Edmonton, Alberta, January 1997 to May 2001.* *Cluster 4 refers to clusters derived from restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns, designated in Figure 2.

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¹The Provincial Laboratory of Public Health for Alberta; Dora Lee, The Capital Health Authority; Kari Bergstrom, Gerald Predy, Alberta Health and Wellness; Karen Grimsrud, Agnes Honish and John Waters.

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