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Insights on Population Structure and Within-Host Genetic Changes among Meningococcal Carriage Isolates from U.S. Universities.
mSphere - 8 Apr 2020
Joseph Sandeep J, Topaz Nadav, Chang How-Yi, Whaley Melissa J, Vuong Jeni T, Chen Alexander, Hu Fang, Schmink Susanna E, Jenkins Laurel T, Rodriguez-Rivera Lorraine D, Thomas Jennifer D, Acosta Anna M, McNamara Lucy, Soeters Heidi M, Mbaeyi Sarah, Wang Xin
Abstract excerpt
In 2015 and 2016, meningococcal carriage evaluations were conducted at two universities in the United States following mass vaccination campaigns in response to Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B (NmB) disease outbreaks. A simultaneous carriage evaluation was also conducted at a university near one of the outbreaks, where no NmB cases were reported and no mass vaccination occurred. A total of ten cross-sectional...
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