Outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease in goleniów county, north-west Poland, march 2009

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 15, Issue 34, 2010, Pages 1-5

  Skoczynska A ^a   Wasko, I ^a   Kuch, A ^a   Golebiewska A ^a   Forys M ^a   Hryniewicz, W ^a  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; PENICILLIN G; PORIN A; RIFAMPICIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MENINGITIS; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLAND; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MENINGOCOCCOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINES; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP C; POLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956538028     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/ese.15.34.19646-en     Document Type: Article

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