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The establishment of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 of the clonal complex ET-37/ST-11 as an epidemic clone and the persistence of serogroup A isolates in Burkina Faso.
Microbes and infection - 1 Apr 2005
Njanpop-Lafourcade Berthe-Marie, Parent du Châtelet Isabelle, Sanou Oumar, Alonso Jean-Michel, Taha Muhamed-Kheir
Abstract excerpt
We analyzed 48 invasive isolates of Neisseria meningitidis that were isolated from meningitis cases in Burkina Faso (April 2002 to April 2003). Thirty-nine of these isolates had the phenotype (serogroup:serotype:serosubtype) W135:2a:P1.5,2, eight isolates were A:4:P1.9 and one isolate was nongroupable:nonserotypable:nonserosubtypable. Genotyping of meningococcal isolates showed that W135 isolates belonged to the...
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