Persistence, replacement, and rapid clonal expansion of meningococcal carriage isolates in a 2008 university student cohort

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 506-512

  Bidmos, Fadil A ^a   Neal, Keith R ^b   Oldfield, Neil J ^b   Turner, David P J ^b   Ala'Aldeen, Dlawer A A ^b   Bayliss, Christopher D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; PORIN A; PROTEIN FETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLONE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 79951482797     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01322-10     Document Type: Article

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