Meningococcosis in Tunisia. Apropos of 80 cases
Pousse, H.; Ben Mbarek, R.; Ayachi, A.; Soua, H.; Ayadi, A.; Braham, H.; Boujaffar, N.; Sfar, M.T.
Medecine Tropicale Revue du Corps de Sante Colonial 49(4): 357-363
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-682X PMID: 2516216 Document Number: 334766
Meningococcosis are nowadays an health problem because their incidence rate (38 cases/100,000 people in 1986 in Mahdia region) and a high death rate (40%) due to fulminating forms. At the occasion of a prospective study during the first six months of 1987, the authors report the emergence of C serogroup (21%), the smallness of A serogroup (6.50%) and the predominance of B serogroup (68%). Improving level of living, good prophylaxy based on spiramycin, development of use of meningococcal vaccine are advisable means to control epidemic outbreaks.