Neisseria meningitidis ST-11 clonal complex, Chile, 2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 339-341

  Araya, Pamela ^a   Fernández, Jorge ^a   Del Canto, Felipe ^b   Seoane, Mabel ^a   Ibarz Pavón, Ana B ^c   Barra, Gisselle ^a   Pidal, Paola ^a   Díaz, Janepsy ^a   Hormazábal, Juan C ^a   Valenzuela, María T ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD PÚBLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILE; CLONE; FATALITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INVASIVE MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; ST 11 CLONAL COMPLEX; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; SEROTYPING;

CHILE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MOLECULAR TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEROTYPING;

EID: 84921733788     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2102.140746     Document Type: Article

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