Meningococcal Disease in Persons With HIV Reported Through Active Surveillance in the United States, 2009-2019

Keegan C Rudmann; Gabrielle Cooper; Henju Marjuki; Arthur Reingold; Meghan Barnes; Susan Petit; Ashley Moore; Lee H Harrison; Ruth Lynfield; Sarah A Khanlian; Bridget J Anderson; Tasha Martin; William Schaffner; Lucy A McNamara; Amy B Rubis

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofad696

Meningococcal Disease in Persons With HIV Reported Through Active Surveillance in the United States, 2009-2019

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024 Jan 4;11(1):ofad696. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad696. eCollection 2024 Jan.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (now with Banner Health, Phoenix, Arizona, USA).
² School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
³ Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, Colorado, USA.
⁴ Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
⁵ Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁶ Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁷ Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
⁸ University of New Mexico Emerging Infections Program, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
⁹ New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA.
¹⁰ Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division, Portland, Oregon, USA.
¹¹ Department of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Abstract

Persons with HIV (PWH) are at increased risk for bacterial infections, and previous publications document an increased risk for invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in particular. This analysis provides evidence that PWH face a 6-fold increase in risk for IMD based on Active Bacterial Core surveillance data collected during 2009-2019.

Keywords: Neisseria meningitidis; invasive meningococcal disease; people with HIV.

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America 2024.