Volume 9, Number 6—June 2003
Research
Serogroup W-135 Meningococcal Disease during the Hajj, 2000
Jairam R. Lingappa*
, Abdullah M. Al-Rabeah†, Rana Hajjeh*, Tajammal Mustafa†, Adel Fatani†, Tami Al-Bassam†, Amira Badukhan†, Abdulhafiz Turkistani†, Nassen Al-Hamdan†, Mohamed Al-Jeffri†, Yaqoub Al Mazrou†, Bradley A. Perkins*, Tanja Popovic*, Leonard W. Mayer*, and Nancy E. Rosenstein*
, Abdullah M. Al-Rabeah†, Rana Hajjeh*, Tajammal Mustafa†, Adel Fatani†, Tami Al-Bassam†, Amira Badukhan†, Abdulhafiz Turkistani†, Nassen Al-Hamdan†, Mohamed Al-Jeffri†, Yaqoub Al Mazrou†, Bradley A. Perkins*, Tanja Popovic*, Leonard W. Mayer*, and Nancy E. Rosenstein*
Figure 1
Figure 1. Meningococcal disease in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by month, 1995–2000. Cases of meningococcal disease with dates converted from Islamic calendar months. The period of the Hajj pilgrimage for each year is underscored.
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