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Antigenic and genetic characterization of serogroup C meningococci isolated from invasive meningococcal disease cases in Canada from 1999 to 2003.
Canadian journal of microbiology - 1 Jul 2005
Law Dennis K S, Stoltz Jan, Henderson Averil M, Tsang Raymond S W
Abstract excerpt
Four hundred and forty-two serogroup C Neisseria meningitidis isolates from individual invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) patients in Canada during the period 1999 to 2003 were analyzed. The majority (84%) of the serogroup C meningococci were characterized by the serotype antigen 2a and belonged to the clonal complex of electrophoretic type ET-15. However, after more than a decade of endemic disease as well as...
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