Risk of Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Men Who Have Sex with Men: Lessons Learned from an Outbreak in Germany, 2012—2013

• Wiebke Hellenbrand ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wiebke Hellenbrand, Heike Claus, Susanne Schink, Ulrich Marcus

  * E-mail: hellenbrandw@rki.de

  Affiliation Immunization Unit, Robert Koch Institute, Seestrasse 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8563-3629

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• Heike Claus ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wiebke Hellenbrand, Heike Claus, Susanne Schink, Ulrich Marcus

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, Reference laboratory for Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Susanne Schink ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wiebke Hellenbrand, Heike Claus, Susanne Schink, Ulrich Marcus

  Current address: Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany

  Affiliations Unit for HIV/AIDS, STI and Blood-borne Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Seestrasse 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany, Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, affiliated with the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training, European Centres of Disease Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

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• Ulrich Marcus ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wiebke Hellenbrand, Heike Claus, Susanne Schink, Ulrich Marcus

  Affiliation Unit for HIV/AIDS, STI and Blood-borne Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Seestrasse 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany

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• Ole Wichmann,

  Affiliation Immunization Unit, Robert Koch Institute, Seestrasse 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany

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• Ulrich Vogel

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, Reference laboratory for Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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