Investigation of a case of recurrent meningitis, W135 and Y in Yirimadio, Bamako, June 2019

Abstract

Meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges: the envelopes of the spinal cord and brain in which the cerebrospinal fluid circulates. Although epidemics in the meningitis belt are due to Neisseria Meningitidis serogroup A, the occurrence in 2000 of a global epidemic has implicated N. meningitidis responsibility of serogroup W135, and in 2016 the occurrence an epidemic of meningitis caused by N. meningitidis serogroup C in Mali. A case of meningitis W135 / Y was detected by the Infectious Disease Unit of the teaching hospital Point G on June 18, 2019. Then we investigated the case of meningitis W135 / Y in the health area of Yirimadio in commune VI in the District of Bamako in June 2019. Our objective was to describe the case, to determine the diffusion potential of the disease, to propose control measures. It was a 42-year-old patient with meningitis W135 and Y who had better care at the hospital than the private practice. Healing took place without sequelae. We briefed the firm's staff on their involvement in epidemiological surveillance.