Polymerase Chain Reaction for Case Ascertainment of Meningococcal Meningitis: Application to the Cerebrospinal Fluids Collected in the Course of the Norwegian Meningococcal Serogroup B Protection Trial

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 149-153

  Caugant, Dominique A ^a   Høiby, E Arne ^a   Frøholm, L Oddvar ^a   Brandtzæg, Petter ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NORWAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLINICAL TRIALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NORWAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 0029992763     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365549609049066     Document Type: Article

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