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Distribution of serogroups and genotypes among disease-associated and carried isolates of Neisseria meningitidis from the Czech Republic, Greece, and Norway.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2004
Yazdankhah Siamak P, Kriz Paula, Tzanakaki Georgina, Kremastinou Jenny, Kalmusova Jitka, Musilek Martin, Alvestad Torill, Jolley Keith A, Wilson Daniel J, McCarthy Noel D, Caugant Dominique A, Maiden Martin C J
Abstract excerpt
The distribution of serogroups and multilocus sequence types (STs) in collections of disease-associated and carried meningococci from the period 1991 to 2000 in three European countries (the Czech Republic, Greece, and Norway) was investigated. A total of 314 patient isolates and 353 isolates from asymptomatic carriers were characterized. The frequency distributions of serogroups and clone complexes differed...
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