Serogroup C meningococci in Italy in the era of conjugate menC vaccination

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 135-

  Stefanelli, Paola ^a   Fazio, Cecilia ^a   Sofia, Tonino ^a   Neri, Arianna ^a   Mastrantonio, Paola ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; PENA PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFECTION RATE; ITALY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PROGNOSIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEPTICEMIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; VACCINATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL GENE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP C; SEROTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349779843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-135     Document Type: Article

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