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Neisseria meningitidis carriage rate, antibiotic susceptibility profile, and associated factors among prisoners at Jimma zonal correction facility in Jimma Town, Southwestern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Neisseria meningitidis causes severe life-threatening meningococcal disease with a case fatality rate of 10–15% even with proper treatment. In Ethiopia, particularly in our study area, inadequate information is found on meningococcal disease. So, this study aimed to assess N. meningitidi...

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Autores principales: Assefa, Samuel, Abdissa, Alemseged, Alemu, Yared, Girma, Lencho, Sahlu, Degemu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9479249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36114580
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-022-00462-z