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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...
Autores principales: | Turner, Abigail N, Carter, Alexandria, Tzeng, Yih-Ling, Brown, Morgan, Stephens, David, Snyder, Brandon, Prince, Devlin, Bazan, Jose A |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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