Populations of pharyngeal meningococci in Niger

Vaccine

Volumn 25, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Nicolas, Pierre ^a   Djibo, Saacou ^b   Tenebray, Bernard ^a   Castelli, Philippe ^a   Stor, Richard ^a   Hamidou, Amina Amadou ^b   Boisier, Pascal ^b   Chanteau, Suzanne ^b  

^a SERVICE DE SANTÉ DES ARMÉES   (France)

^b Centre de Recherche Medicale et Sanitaire   (Niger)

Author keywords

Multilocus sequence typing; Neisseria meningitidis; Pharyngeal carriage

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NIGER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THROAT CULTURE;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP W-135; NIGER; PHARYNX;

EID: 34547610584     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.04.041     Document Type: Article

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