| group a meningococcal disease in the u.s. pacific northwest: epidemiology, clinical features, and effect of a vaccination control program. | in 1975 an outbreak of group a meningococcal disease began in seattle, washington, and cases subsequently were recognized throughout the pacific northwest. nearly one-half of the affected persons were native americans; two-thirds were alcohol abusers and/or habitués of skid road communities. in seattle, group a meningococci colonized asymptomatic persons only if these individuals had contact with skid road (p = .006). the epidemic strain may have spread from american indians in manitoba, canada. ... | 1984 | 6209769 |
| meningitis in the central arctic: a 4-year experience. | there were 37 cases of meningitis during a 4-year period among the native and white populations served by the churchill health centre in northern manitoba, an annual incidence of 128 per 100 000 in the overall population and of 202 per 100 000 among the inuit. bacterial meningitis predominated; neisseria meningitidis and haemophilus influenzae each accounted for one third of the cases. there were five deaths, and 14 of the survivors had severe sequelae. therefore, although the doctors and nurses ... | 1981 | 7214288 |
| age-related immunogenicity of meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine in aboriginal children and adolescents living in a northern manitoba reserve community. | to determine the total and functional serogroup c antibody response to a quadrivalent meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine in a group of aboriginal infants, children and adolescents. a secondary objective was to determine their prevalence of meningococcal carriage. | 1998 | 9802625 |
| the international circumpolar surveillance interlaboratory quality control program for serotyping haemophilus influenzae and serogrouping neisseria meningitidis, 2005 - 2009. | the international circumpolar surveillance (ics) program was initiated in 1999 to conduct population-based surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease in select regions of the arctic. the program expanded to include surveillance of invasive diseases caused by n. meningitidis and h. influenzae. an interlaboratory quality control (qc) program to monitor laboratory proficiencies in the serogrouping of n. meningitidis and serotyping of h. influenzae was co-developed by the arctic investigations p ... | 2011 | 22170933 |