Correlating Epidemiologic Trends with the Genotypes Causing Meningococcal Disease, Maryland

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 451-456

  McEllistrem, M Catherine ^a,e   Kolano, John A ^a   Pass, Margaret A ^b   Caugant, Dominique A ^c   Mendelsohn, Aaron B ^a   Pacheco, Antonio Guilherme Fonseca ^a   Shutt, Kathleen A ^a   Razeq, Jafar ^d   Harrison, Lee H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CLONE; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MARYLAND; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEROTYPING;

EID: 1542317493     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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