TY - JOUR AU - Domenech de Cellès, Matthieu AU - Campbell, Helen AU - Borrow, Ray AU - Taha, Muhamed-Kheir AU - Opatowski, Lulla PY - 2020 DA - 2020/04/22 TI - Transmissibility and pathogenicity of the emerging meningococcal serogroup W sequence type-11 complex South American strain: a mathematical modeling study JO - BMC Medicine SP - 109 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - The recent emergence of strains belonging to the meningococcal serogroup W (MenW) sequence type-11 clonal complex and descending from the South American sub-lineage (MenW:cc11/SA) has caused significant shifts in the epidemiology of meningococcal disease worldwide. Although MenW:cc11/SA is deemed highly transmissible and invasive, its epidemiological characteristics have not yet been quantified. SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01552-7 DO - 10.1186/s12916-020-01552-7 ID - Domenech de Cellès2020 ER -