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    How can genomics help us defeat meningitis?

    Whole genome sequencing is a cutting-edge technology that studies the genetic make-up of the bacteria that cause meningitis.  This genomic information can tell us how closely related different meningitis bacteria are which is crucial when tracking and tracing meningitis outbreaks, whether strains are covered by available vaccines and whether they are resistant to antibiotics.

    Read more about our genomics research

    How does country income status affect access to meningitis genomics?

    Low-income, high-burden countries have the least access to potentially life-saving meningitis genomics

    Currently only few countries have access to, and allocate the resources to perform whole genome sequencing on meningitis causing bacteria, which limits our understanding of the disease.  Expanding genomic surveillance globally, and especially in low- and middle-income-countries with many meningitis cases, is essential for the effective control of meningitis.

    This visualisation shows the relationship between the number of genomes submitted to the Global Meningitis Genome Library (GMGL), the estimated meningitis cases within a country and country wealth. You can filter between different counties, World Health Organization (WHO) regions and the four main bacterial causes of meningitis.

    Learn more about our work on genomics

    The Global Meningitis Genome Library

    Find out more about what happens at the GMGL – an open-access repository which provides vital genomic data on four of the leading causes of bacterial meningitis

    The Global Meningitis Genome Partnership

    Explore the work of the Global Meningitis Genome Partnership – an international, multi-stakeholder group convened to create an environment conducive to data sharing and improve the representativeness of meningitis genome sequence data

    Citing our work

    We welcome you using our data to advocate for and raise awareness of meningitis. However, when citing this information please include references to underlying data sources, as this important work relies on many different people and organisations.

    Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF). (2024). Meningitis Progress Tracker | Meningitis Research Foundation.
    www.meningitis.org. https://www.meningitis.org/mpt

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