Outbreak of serogroup C meningococcal disease caused by a variant of Neisseria meningitidis serotype 2a ET-15 in a community of men who have sex with men

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 4411-4414

  Tsang, Raymond S W ^a   Kiefer, Lori ^b,d   Law, Dennis K S ^a   Stoltz, Jan ^a   Shahin, Rita ^b   Brown, Shirley ^c   Jamieson, Frances ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b TORONTO PUBLIC HEALTH   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND LONG TERM CARE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENETIC CODE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0042420226     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.9.4411-4414.2003     Document Type: Article

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