Acquisition of virulence genes by a carrier strain gave rise to the ongoing epidemics of meningococcal disease in West Africa

In the African meningitis belt, a region of sub-Saharan Africa comprising 22 countries from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east, large epidemics of serogroup A meningococcal meningitis have occurred periodically. After gradual introduction from 2010 of mass vaccination with a monovalent meni...

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Published in:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Main Authors: Brynildsrud, Ola Brønstad, Eldholm, Vegard, Bohlin, Jon, Uadiale, Kennedy, Obaro, Stephen, Caugant, Dominique A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2018
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Biological Sciences
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6003489/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29735685
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1802298115
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