Clonal Waves of Neisseria Colonisation and Disease in the African Meningitis Belt: Eight- Year Longitudinal Study in Northern Ghana

BACKGROUND: The Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana lies in the African “meningitis belt” where epidemics of meningococcal meningitis have been reoccurring every eight to 12 years for the last 100 years. The dynamics of meningococcal colonisation and disease are incompletely understood, and h...

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Main Authors: Leimkugel, Julia, Hodgson, Abraham, Forgor, Abudulai Adams, Pflüger, Valentin, Dangy, Jean-Pierre, Smith, Tom, Achtman, Mark, Gagneux, Sébastien, Pluschke, Gerd
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2007
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831736/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17388665
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040101
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