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Volume 9, Number 6, June 2003

Serogroup W-135 Meningococcal Disease during the Hajj, 2000

Jairam R. Lingappa,* Abdullah M. Al-Rabeah,† Rana Hajjeh,* Tajammal Mustafa,† Adel Fatani,† Tami Al-Bassam,† Amira Badukhan,† Abdulhafiz Turkistani,† Nassen Al-Hamdan,† Mohamed Al-Jeffri,† Yaqoub Al Mazrou,† Bradley A. Perkins,* Tanja Popovic,* Leonard W. Mayer,* and Nancy E. Rosenstein*
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; and HSaudi Arabian Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

 
 
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Figure 1. Meningococcal disease in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by month, 1995–2000. Cases of meningococcal disease with dates converted from Islamic calendar months. The period of the Hajj pilgrimage for each year is underscored.

 

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