Spatiotemporal analysis of invasive meningococcal disease, Germany

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1689-1695

  Elias, Johannes ^a   Harmsen, Dag ^b   Claus, Heike ^a   Hellenbrand, Wiebke ^c   Frosch, Matthias ^a   Vogel, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE DURATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750537762     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1211.060682     Document Type: Article

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