Control of recent community-based outbreaks of invasive meningococcal disease in men who have sex with men in Europe and the United States

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 28, 2013, Pages

  Weiss, D ^a   Varma, J K ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; DISEASE CONTROL; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; EUROPE; HUMAN; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MOBILE PHONE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; VACCINATION;

EID: 84880099336     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.28.20522     Document Type: Editorial

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