Spatiotemporal Analysis of Invasive Meningococcal Disease, Germany

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Invasive Meningococcal Disease, Germany

Meningococci can cause clusters of disease. Specimens from 1,616 patients in Germany obtained over 42 months were typed by serogrouping and sequence typing of PorA and FetA and yielded a highly diverse dataset (Simpson's index 0.963). A retrospective spatiotemporal scan statistic (SaTScan) was...

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Main Authors: Johannes Elias, Dag Harmsen, Heike Claus, Wiebke Hellenbrand, Matthias Frosch, Ulrich Vogel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006-11-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Neisseria meningitidis
meningococcal infections
cluster analysis
bacterial typing techniques
research
Germany
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/11/06-0682_article

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