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Molecular characterisation of group A Neisseria meningitidis isolated in Sudan 1985-2001.
APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica - 1 Nov 2003
Jacobsson Susanne, Issa Mohamed, Unemo Magnus, Bäckman Anders, Mölling Paula, Sulaiman Nageeb, Olcén Per
Abstract excerpt
A total of 33 group A Neisseria meningitidis (Mc) isolates, collected in Sudan between 1985 and 2001, were studied in order to describe the changes over time in a country within the meningitis belt of Africa. The isolates were characterised by traditional phenotypic methods (serogrouping, serotyping, serosubtyping and antibiogram) and molecular techniques (genosubtyping, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis [PFGE]...
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