420. Prevalence of Oropharyngeal Meningococcal Carriage in an Urban STD Clinic

BACKGROUND: Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) can cause invasive disease, but it also asymptomatically colonizes the pharynx in approximately 10% of the general population. Older studies have reported higher carriage rates (>30%) among individuals attending sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics. T...

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Autores principales: Turner, Abigail N, Carter, Alexandria, Tzeng, Yih-Ling, Brown, Morgan, Stephens, David, Snyder, Brandon, Prince, Devlin, Bazan, Jose A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810105/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.493