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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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Table 1

Demographic characteristics of confirmed and probable cases in meningococcal C disease outbreak caused by multidrug resistant Neisseria meningitidis, Fiji, 2016–2018*

Characteristic No./total no. (%)
Sex
M 59/96 (61.5)
F
 37/96 (38.5)
Ethnicity
iTaukei, indigenous people of Fiji 81/96 (84.4)
Indian descent from Fiji 7/96 (7.3)
Other ethnicity from Fiji 5/96 (5.2)
Non-Fiji citizen
 3/96 (3.1)
Age group, y
<1 18/96 (18.8)
1–4 14596 (15.6)
5–9 15/96 (15.6)
10–14 20/96 (21.8)
15–19 17/96 (17.7)
>20
 11/96 (11.5)
Medical division
Central 51/96 (53.1)
Western 29/96 (30.2)
Eastern 9/96 (9.4)
Northern
 7/96 (7.3)
Method of confirmation
Blood or CSF culture 34/82 (41.5)
CSF PCR 24/82 (29.3)
Blood or CSF culture and CSF PCR 14/82 (17.1)
CSF positive antigen test 9/82 (11.0)
Postmortem PCR 1/82 (1.2)

*CSF, cerebrospinal fluid.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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