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Volume 31, Number 1—January 2025
Synopsis

Meningococcal C Disease Outbreak Caused by Multidrug-Resistant Neisseria meningitidis, Fiji

Aneley Getahun Strobel1Comments to Author , Aalisha Sahukhan1, Anaseini Ratu, Jimaima Kailawadoko, Isireli Koroituku, Shalini Singh, Samuel McEwen, Sakiusa Baleivanualala, Mathilda Wilmot, Silivia Matanitobua, Kerrie Stevens, Anaseini Vesikula, Talica Cabemaiwai, Raquel Cooper, Mere Taufa, Jokaveti Tadrau, Kristy Horan, Daniel Faktaufon, Benjamin P. Howden2, and Eric Rafai2
Author affiliation: The University of Melbourne at Peter Doherty Institute for infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (A.S. Getahun, M. Wilmot, K. Stevens, R. Cooper, K. Horan, B.P. Howden); Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji (A.S. Getahun, A. Ratu); Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Suva (A. Sahukhan, J. Kailawadoko, I. Koroituku, S. Singh, S. McEwen, S. Baleivanualala, S. Matanitobua, A. Vesikula, T. Cabemaiwai, M. Taufa, J. Tadrau, D. Faktaufon, E. Rafai); Centre for Pathogen Genomics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne (B.P. Howden)

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Figure 2

Epidemic curve showing the number of confirmed and probable invasive meningococcal disease cases in Fiji reported monthly by serogroup, January 2016–August 2023. Surveillance was interrupted in 2021 because of the COVID-19 outbreak. MenB, Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B; MenC, N. meningitidis serogroup C; MenW, N. meningitidis serogroup W; MenY, N. meningitidis serogroup Y.

Figure 2. Epidemic curve showing the number of confirmed and probable invasive meningococcal disease cases in Fiji reported monthly by serogroup, January 2016–August 2023. Surveillance was interrupted in 2021 because of the COVID-19 outbreak. MenB, Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B; MenC, N. meningitidis serogroup C; MenW, N. meningitidis serogroup W; MenY, N. meningitidis serogroup Y.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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