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Outbreak of W135 meningococcal disease in 2000: not emergence of a new W135 strain but clonal expansion within the electophoretic type-37 complex.

The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2002

Mayer Leonard W, Reeves Michael W, Al-Hamdan Nasser, Sacchi Claudio T, Taha Muhamed-Kheir, Ajello Gloria W, Schmink Susanna E, Noble Corie A, Tondella Maria Lucia C, Whitney Anne M, Al-Mazrou Yagoub, Al-Jefri Mohammed, Mishkhis Amin, Sabban Sameer, Caugant Dominique A, Lingappa Jairam, Rosenstein Nancy E, Popovic Tanja

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In 2000, >400 cases of disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 (MenW135), the largest MenW135 outbreak reported to date, occurred worldwide among Hajj pilgrims and their contacts. To elucidate the origin of the outbreak strains and to investigate their relatedness to major clonal...

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PMID: 12023765
DOI: 10.1086/340414

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