Enhanced Meningococcal Disease Surveillance report, 2019 : confirmed and probable cases reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, 2019

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Office of Infectious Diseases.
• Description:
  As part of Enhanced Meningococcal Disease Surveillance (EMDS), additional data and isolates were collected from 50 state and 3 large jurisdiction health departments. In 2019, the population under surveillance was 328,239,523.
  
  EMDS focuses on: (1) collecting isolates from all cases; and (2) collecting complete case information, with an emphasis on college attendance for cases in people aged 15–24 years; history of sex with men for cases in males aged ≥16 years; and information on homelessness for all cases.
  
  CSTE case definition: A confirmed case was defined as isolation of Neisseria meningitidis or detection of N. meningitidis by PCR from a normally sterile body site.
  
  A probable case was defined as detection of N. meningitidis antigen by latex agglutination or immunohistochemistry.
  
  CS283195
  
  Publication date from document properties.
  
  NCIRD-EMS-Report-2019.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Meningococcal Infections/epidemiology Neisseria Meningitidis Public Health Surviellance
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Name as Subject:
  National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b4f15610cc57eaa79593cd64449745cf7fc039f6e205b60bc3ade1daca57c83b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/111382/cdc_111382_DS1.pdf
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