Meningococcal carriage within households in the African meningitis belt: A longitudinal pilot study

OBJECTIVES: Carriers of Neisseria meningitidis are a key source of transmission. In the African meningitis belt, where risk of meningococcal disease is highest, a greater understanding of meningococcal carriage dynamics is needed. METHODS: We randomly selected an age-stratified sample of 400 residen...

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Autores principales: Basta, Nicole E., Berthe, Abdoulaye, Keita, Mahamadou, Onwuchekwa, Uma, Tamboura, Boubou, Traore, Awa, Hassan-King, Musa, Manigart, Olivier, Nascimento, Maria, Stuart, James M., Trotter, Caroline, Blake, Jayne, Carr, Anthony D., Gray, Stephen J., Newbold, Lynne S., Deng, Yangqing, Wolfson, Julian, Halloran, M. Elizabeth, Greenwood, Brian, Borrow, Ray, Sow, Samba O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: W.B. Saunders 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5790055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29197599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2017.11.006

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5790055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29197599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2017.11.006

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