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Hyperinvasive genotypes of Neisseria meningitidis in France.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 May 2008
Zarantonelli M L, Lancellotti M, Deghmane A E, Giorgini D, Hong E, Ruckly C, Alonso J-M, Taha M-K
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Clinical isolates of Neisseria meningitidis from cases of meningococcal disease, collected between January 2000 and December 2004, were identified and typed at the French National Reference Centre. A representative subset of 546 isolates from among 2882 isolates was further genotyped by multilocus sequence typing to determine their genetic lineages (clonal complexes) and the degree of diversification among...
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