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Current Epidemiology of Serogroup W Meningococcal Disease—United States, 2010–2015

BACKGROUND: Serogroup W (NmW) meningococcal disease is a rare but severe infection. Following an NmW outbreak after the Hajj in 2000, NmW disease, predominantly caused by sequence type (ST)-11 clonal complex (cc), rapidly increased in South Africa, South America, and the UK. We describe NmW meningoc...

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Autores principales: Soeters, Heidi, Blain, Amy, Chang, How-Yi, Whaley, Melissa, Macneil, Jessica
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5632085/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx162.017