Neisseria meningitidis serogroup X sequence type 767 in Turkey

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4340-4341

  Kiliç, Abdullah ^a   Bedir, Orhan ^a   Basustaoglu, A Celal ^a   Bratcher, Holly B ^b   Jolley, Keith A ^b   Mert, Gurkan ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE DURATION; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; LABORATORY TEST; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NOSE SMEAR; OROPHARYNGEAL SWAB; PETECHIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOLDIER; TURKEY (BIRD); VOMITING;

ADULT; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; TURKEY;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 78049514111     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01417-10     Document Type: Article

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