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Lower risk of invasive meningococcal disease during pregnancy: National prospective surveillance in England, 2011–2014

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology May 19, 2019

Parikh SR, et al. - Researchers conducted a prospective enhanced national surveillance for invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) to delineate cases of IMD in women of childbearing age. In addition, they compared pregnant with non-pregnant women regarding the disease incidence and relative risk of IMD. They identified 1502 cases of IMD in females across England during the 4-year surveillance period; of these, women of reproductive age comprised 310 (20.6%) cases, including four women who were pregnant at the time of IMD confirmation (1.3%). Findings revealed nearly five times less tendency to develop IMD among pregnant women than non-pregnant women. However, the infection can occur across all trimesters and can be severe.
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