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  • Title: [Meningococcosis in Tunisia. Apropos of 80 cases].
    Author: Pousse H, Ben Mbarek R, Ayachi A, Soua H, Ayadi A, Braham H, Boujaffar N, Sfar MT.
    Journal: Med Trop (Mars); 1989; 49(4):357-63. PubMed ID: 2516216.
    Abstract:
    Meningococcosis are nowadays an health problem because their incidence rate (38 cases/100,000 people in 1986 in Mahdia region) and a high death rate (40%) due to fulminating forms. At the occasion of a prospective study during the first six months of 1987, the authors report the emergence of C serogroup (21%), the smallness of A serogroup (6.50%) and the predominance of B serogroup (68%). Improving level of living, good prophylaxy based on spiramycin, development of use of meningococcal vaccine are advisable means to control epidemic outbreaks.
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