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Seven-week interval between acquisition of a meningococcus and the onset of invasive disease. A case report.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Dec 1999
Neal K R, Nguyen-van-Tam J S, Slack R C, Kaczmarski E B, White A, Ala'Aldeen D A
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Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is thought to occur within a few days of pharyngeal acquisition of Neisseria meningitidis. During a longitudinal study of carriage and acquisition among 2453 first-year undergraduates we identified a male student from whom N. lactamica was isolated in October 1997 followed by N. meningitidis in December 1997. In mid-January 1998 this student suffered a mild episode of IMD...
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