A cluster of meningococcal disease caused by rifampicin-resistant C meningococci in France, April 2012

I Mounchetrou Njoya; Ae Deghmane; Mk Taha; H Isnard; I Parent du Chatelet

A cluster of meningococcal disease caused by rifampicin-resistant C meningococci in France, April 2012

Euro Surveill. 2012 Aug 23;17(34):20254.

Authors

I Mounchetrou Njoya¹, Ae Deghmane, Mk Taha, H Isnard, I Parent du Chatelet

Affiliation

¹ French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, Institut de Veille Sanitaire, InVS, Ile-de-France and Champagne-Ardenne, France. [email protected]

PMID: 22939210

Abstract

In April 2012, a cluster of two cases of meningococcal disease caused by rifampicin-resistant C meningococci was reported in the Champagne-Ardenne region, France. The two cases occurred in a student population living in the same town but studying at different schools. Bacteriological and epidemiological investigations of cases have shown that the isolates of both cases were non-differentiable.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Amoxicillin / administration & dosage
Amoxicillin / pharmacology
Antibiotics, Antitubercular / pharmacology*
Cefotaxime / pharmacology
Cluster Analysis
Contact Tracing
Drug Resistance, Bacterial / genetics
Female
France
Genotype
Humans
Male
Meningococcal Infections / epidemiology
Meningococcal Infections / microbiology*
Meningococcal Vaccines
Multilocus Sequence Typing
Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup B / drug effects*
Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup B / genetics
Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup B / isolation & purification
Rifampin / pharmacology*
Young Adult

Substances

Antibiotics, Antitubercular
Meningococcal Vaccines
Amoxicillin
Cefotaxime
Rifampin