Rico Cordeiro O, Jiménez Barreras R, Pereira Colls C, Alonso Fernández A
Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí.
Rev Cubana Med Trop. 1995;47(2):108-12.
Children less than one year old behave as the group with the highest incidence of meningococcal disease during all the epidemic period in the past '80s decade in Cuba. There were used chronological series of monthly incidence rates between 1983 and 1990, in order to identify the behavior of seasonality, taking into account the clinical form and the insert of years 1989 and 1990 in the series: in both of them a massive antimeningococcal vaccination campaign took place. It is evident that seasonality has a different behavior in accordance with the clinical form: it is like the countries from the northern hemisphere with a moderate climate for the meningoencephalitis, and like the countries of the southern hemisphere with a warm climate for the meningococcal syndrome. Months of the rainy period have the lowest seasonal index. Modifications of these seasonal patterns are not found after executing the vaccination.
在古巴20世纪80年代的整个流行期间，一岁以下儿童是脑膜炎球菌病发病率最高的群体。利用了1983年至1990年每月发病率的时间序列，以确定季节性特征，同时考虑到临床形式以及该序列中1989年和1990年的情况：在这两年中都开展了大规模的抗脑膜炎球菌疫苗接种运动。显然，季节性特征根据临床形式而有所不同：对于脑膜脑炎而言，其情况类似于气候温和的北半球国家；对于脑膜炎球菌综合征而言，其情况类似于气候温暖的南半球国家。雨季月份的季节性指数最低。接种疫苗后未发现这些季节性模式有变化。
