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Genomic Typing of Meningococcal Carriage Isolates in an Urban Sexual Health Clinic.
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) - 12 May 2026
Tzeng Yih-Ling, Sannigrahi Soma, Turner Abigail Norris, Carter Alexandria M, Snyder Brandon, Bazan Jose A, Stephens David S
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Asymptomatic pharyngeal Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) carriage is seen in >30% of sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinic attendees. With increasing reports of Nm urethritis and STI-related invasive disease outbreaks, longitudinal assessment and genomic characterization of Nm among patients at an urban STI clinic population in Columbus, Ohio, was undertaken. This study determined the genomic basis of...
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