ABCs Areas: California (3 county San Francisco Bay area); Colorado (5 county Denver area); Connecticut; Georgia; Maryland; Minnesota; New Mexico; New York (15 county Rochester and Albany areas); Oregon; Tennessee (11 urban counties)

ABCs Population: The surveillance areas represent 40,413,698 persons. Source: National Center for Health Statistics bridged-race vintage 2007 postcensal file

ABCs Case Definition: Invasive meningococcal disease: isolation of Neisseria meningitidis from normally sterile site in a resident of a surveillance area in 2007.

Citation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2008. Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Report, Emerging Infections Program Network, Neisseria meningitidis, 2007.

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