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Patient and strain characteristics in relation to the outcome of meningococcal disease: a multivariate analysis
1 Feb 1994
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the joint association of patient and strain characteristics with the outcome of meningococcal disease (MD), data were collected on 563 consecutive cases of MD reported between 1989 and 1990 in The Netherlands. The meningococcal isolates were characterized with regard to their surface characteristics. Sequelae occurred in 8.5% of the patients, and were only associated with the presence of...
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