Establishment of an Active Laboratory-Based Surveillance for Bacterial Meningitis in Croatia and Molecular Characterization of Neisseria meningitidis Isolates Causing Meningococcal Disease That Were Collected in the Year 2000, the First Year of Activity

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1803-1806

  Boras, A ^a,b   Jeren, T ^a   Sacchi, C T ^b   Schmink, S ^b   Bozinovic, D ^a   Barsic, B ^a   Rosenstein, N E ^b   Popovic, T ^b  

^a Croatia   (Croatia)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CROATIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROATIA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING;

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

EID: 16544381455     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.4.1803-1806.2004     Document Type: Article

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