Identification of Streptococcus suis Meningitis through Population-Based Surveillance, Togo, 2010-2014

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 22; no. 7; pp. 1262 - 1264
• Main Authors: Tall, Haoua, Njanpop-Lafourcade, Berthe-Marie, Mounkoro, Didier, Tidjani, Loukoumane, Agbenoko, Kodjo, Alassani, Issifou, Amidou, Moussa, Tamekloe, Stanislas, Laing, Kenneth G, Witney, Adam A, Hinds, Jason, van der Linden, Mark P G, Gessner, Bradford D, Moïsi, Jennifer C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.07.2016; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Africa; Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacology; Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use; Child; Child, Preschool; Diagnosis; Dispatch; Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial; Female; Humans; Identification of; Male; Meningitis; Meningitis through Population-Based Surveillance, Togo, 2010–2014; Meningitis, Bacterial - epidemiology; Meningitis, Bacterial - microbiology; Methods; Middle Aged; occupational health; Population Surveillance; Sentinel surveillance; Streptococcal infections; Streptococcus suis; Streptococcus suis - drug effects; Streptococcus suis - isolation & purification; Togo; Togo - epidemiology; Young Adult; zoonoses; Togo; Togo; bacteria; meningitis belt; Africa; Streptococcus suis; meningitis; zoonoses; surveillance; occupational health
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2207.151511

During 2010-2014, we enrolled 511 patients with suspected bacterial meningitis into surveillance in 2 districts of northern Togo. We identified 15 persons with Streptococcus suis infection; 10 had occupational contact with pigs, and 12 suffered neurologic sequelae. S. suis testing should be considered in rural areas of the African meningitis belt.