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Improved methods of detection of meningococcal DNA from oropharyngeal swabs from cases and contacts of meningococcal disease.

In the UK the increasing use of pre-admission parenteral antibiotic therapy in meningococcal disease has lessened the value of routine cultures as a tool to confirm diagnosis, and laboratory confirmation of invasive meningococcal infection is achieved increasingly by non-culture, nucleic acid amplif...

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Main Authors: Sadler, F., Borrow, R., Dawson, M. M., Kaczmarski, E. B., Cartwright, K., Fox, A. J.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Cambridge University Press 2000
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2869599/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11117950
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