Volume 10, Number 3, March 2004

Correlating Epidemiologic Trends with the Genotypes Causing Meningococcal Disease, Maryland

M. Catherine McEllistrem,* John A. Kolano,* Margaret A. Pass,† Dominique A. Caugant,‡ Aaron B. Mendelsohn,* Antonio Guilherme Fonseca Pacheco,* Kathleen A. Shutt,* Jafar Razeq,§ Lee H. Harrison,*† and the Maryland Emerging Infections Program
*University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; †Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ‡World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Meningococci, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway; and §Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Figure 1. Pulsed-field gel electrophoreses (PFGE) patterns of 150 meningococcal serogroup C and Y strains isolated from persons during 1992–1999. Serogroup, age group, culture date, and sequence type (ST) are listed to the right of the dendrogram. The three clonal groups and the PFGE patterns of the two isolates from the 1995 (*) outbreak, two isolates from the 1997 outbreak (**), and three isolates from the 1999 outbreak (***) are indicated. See text for a brief description of the outbreaks.

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