Table 1.
Confirmed meningococcal meningitis cases reported to WHO and isolates collected.
| Countries | 2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | Isolates | Cases | Isolates | Cases | Isolates | Cases | Isolates | Cases | Isolates | Cases | Isolates | |
| Mali | 29 | 6 | 94 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 23 | 16 | 44 | 0 |
| Burkina Faso | 257 | 41 | 843 | 167 | 180 | 20 | 210 | 4 | 258 | 11 | 176 | 5 |
| Niger | 373 | 17 | 22 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 1390 | 102 | 352 | 0 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 38 | 5 | 20 | 9 | 22 | 14 |
| Chad | 104 | 47 | 47 | 23 | 3 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Cameroon | 92 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Benin | 0 | 0 | 6 | 41 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| Togo | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 36 | 12 | 307 | 42 |
| Ivory coast | 0 | 0 | 89 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Guinea | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 74 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| CAR | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 56 | 23 |
| Total | 861 | 115 | 1137 | 272 | 236 | 60 | 302 | 26 | 1814 | 159 | 989 | 84 |
The table above contains the confirmed meningococcal meningitis cases and isolates collected for each country per year of the study. The confirmed cases were obtained from the WHO Meningitis Weekly Bulletin Reports for the years 2011–2016.