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. 2022 Nov 23;10:1000657. doi: 10.3389/fped.2022.1000657

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Notification rate of confirmed cases* (N/100,000) by country for each serogroup in 2019 (21). BE, Belgium; DE, Germany; ES, Spain; FR, France; IT, Italy; NL, Netherlands; PT, Portugal; UK, United Kingdom. *Confirmed case of IMD is defined as any person meeting at least one of the following laboratory criteria: isolation of N. meningitidis from a normally sterile site, or purpuric skin lesions; detection of N. meningitidis nucleic acid from a normally sterile site, or purpuric skin lesions; detection of N. meningitidis antigen in cerebrospinal fluid; detection of Gram-negative stained diplococcus in cerebrospinal fluid.