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Emergence of new virulent Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C sequence type 11 isolates in France.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Jul 2010
Deghmane Ala-Eddine, Parent du Chatelet Isabelle, Szatanik Marek, Hong Eva, Ruckly Corinne, Giorgini Dario, Lévy-Bruhl Daniel, Alonso Jean-Michel, Taha Muhamed-Kheir
Abstract excerpt
In France, there have been variations in the incidence of invasive meningococcal infection due to serogroup C isolates. Infection peaks were observed in 1992 and 2003 that involved isolates of phenotypes C:2a:P1.5,2 and/or C:2a:P1.5, which belong to the sequence type 11 (ST-11) clonal complex. We...
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