ABCs Areas: California (3 county San Francisco Bay area); Colorado (5 county Denver area); Connecticut; Georgia; Maryland; Minnesota; New York (15 county Rochester/Albany area); Oregon; Tennessee (11 county area). ABCs Population: The surveillance areas represent 36,435,355 persons. Source: National Center for Health Statistics bridged-race vintage 2002 postcensal file ABCs Case Definition: Invasive meningococcal disease: isolation of Neisseria meningitidis from normally sterile site in a resident of a surveillance area in 2002. Citation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2003. Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Report, Emerging Infections Program Network, Neisseria meningitidis, 2002. Oct2003 File - 14Nov2003 Publication date from document properties. mening02.pdf

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