Correlating Epidemiologic Trends with the Genotypes Causing Meningococcal Disease, Maryland

Correlating Epidemiologic Trends with the Genotypes Causing Meningococcal Disease, Maryland

Epidemic meningococcal infection is generally caused by single clones; whether nonepidemic increases in infection are clonal is unknown. We studied the molecular epidemiology of meningococcal infection during a period that the incidence increased in two age groups. Serogroup C and Y meningococcal is...

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Main Authors: M. Catherine McEllistrem, John A. Kolano, Margaret A. Pass, Dominique A. Caugant, Aaron B. Mendelsohn, Antonio Guilherme Fonseca Pacheco, Jafar Razeq, Lee H. Harrison
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004-03-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Neisseria meningitidis
molecular epidemiology
pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
multi-locus sequence typing
serogroup C
serogroup Y
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/3/02-0611_article

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