The control of meningococcal disease

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 176, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 573-574

  Hall, Robert G ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBODY; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; PENICILLIN G; POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOSE RESPONSE; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEVER; HUMAN; LISTERIOSIS; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RASH; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; SIDE EFFECT; VACCINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NASOPHARYNX;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; NASOPHARYNX; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLINS; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE;

EID: 0037124216     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04586.x     Document Type: Editorial

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