Fig. 1

Map of Côte d’Ivoire in the context of the African meningitis belt. The orange shape in the map above presents the location of the African meningitis belt; the zoom on Côte d’Ivoire shows with better precision the regions of the country within that African meningitis belt (in light yellow). The city in which the two sites have been selected for this study are highlighted. The spatial distribution of Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A, W135 and B/C received at the National Reference Centre for meningitis between 2007 and 2012 is also shown. This figure was modified from one published in 2018 by Soumahoro et al.²¹ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.