Meningococcal meningitis

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 10-11

  Aguado, T ^a,b   Bertherat, E ^a,b   Djingarey, M ^a,b   Kandolo, D ^a,b   Kieny, M P ^a,b   Konde K ^a,b   LaForce, F M ^a,b   Nelson, C B ^a,b   Perea, W ^a,b   Preziosi M P ^a,b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b PATH ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MENINGOCOCCUS TYPE A VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS TYPE C VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; PENICILLIN G; POLYSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG COST; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MENINX; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SEROLOGY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINES; VACCINATION; VACCINES, CONJUGATE; WORLD HEALTH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 19944390166     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1070     Document Type: Note

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