Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of meningococcal carriage and disease isolates in Burkina Faso after mass vaccination with a serogroup a conjugate vaccine

BACKGROUND: The conjugate vaccine against serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis (NmA), MenAfriVac, was first introduced in mass vaccination campaigns of the 1-29-year-olds in Burkina Faso in 2010. The aim of this study was to genetically characterize meningococcal isolates circulating in Burkina Faso b...

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Autores principales: Kristiansen, Paul A, Ba, Absatou Ky, Sanou, Idrissa, Ouédraogo, Abdoul-Salam, Ouédraogo, Rasmata, Sangaré, Lassana, Diomandé, Fabien, Kandolo, Denis, Thomas, Jennifer Dolan, Clark, Thomas A, LaForce, Marc, Caugant, Dominique A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3750508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23914778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-363

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