Notice to healthcare providers : Recognizing and reporting Serogroup B meningococcal disease associated with outbreaks at Princeton University and the University of California at Santa Barbara

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• Alternative Title:
  Recognizing and reporting Serogroup B meningococcal disease associated with outbreaks at Princeton University and the University of California at Santa Barbara
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  November 27, 2013, 10:30 ET (10:30 AM ET)
  
  CDCHAN-00357
  
  Summary: The purpose of this advisory is
  
  1) to alert healthcare providers and health departments about a prolonged meningococcal disease outbreak at Princeton University and a recent outbreak at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the potential for cases to occur among students traveling to their home states for Thanksgiving break,
  
  2) to advise healthcare providers about reporting suspected cases of meningococcal disease to the New Jersey Department of Health and California Department of Public Health, and
  
  3) to provide information about PCR testing of isolates from serogroup B meningococcal disease cases at CDC.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Outbreaks Meningitis, Meningococcal/diagnosis Meningitis, Meningococcal/epidemiology Neisseria Meningitidis, Serogroup B Universities Young Adult
• Source:
  HAN ; 357
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Document Type:
  HAN Health Advisory
• Place as Subject:
  California ; New Jersey
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  357
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b6c71b49dbe0ea11954c22492425555d1dbb9dc28c609e1dc4e8f4cf5ec128818885c0150806d303cdd6fb061b604a5011dded84f9be8b1f144ee1fe0a92fa5a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/25266/cdc_25266_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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