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In southern Uganda, only sporadic cases of serogroup A meningococcal disease have been reported since 2000. As part of an immunogenicity study of the tetravalent meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine, nasopharyngeal swab samples were collected twice, 4 weeks apart, from 2-19-year-old healthy individuals in Mbarara, Uganda. Only 15 (2.0%) of the 750 individuals carried meningococci asymptomatically. Most of the strains were non-serogroupable and none were serogroup A. However, two individuals c...
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/j.trstmh.2006.01.004
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- Journal:
- Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Volume:
- 100
- Issue:
- 12
- Pages:
- 1159-1163
- Publication date:
- 2006-12-05
- DOI:
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1878-3503
- ISSN:
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0035-9203
- URN:
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uuid:5b1ede93-3ffd-4928-be1a-7f80bddafa7a
- Source identifiers:
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68424
- Local pid:
- pubs:68424
- Language:
- English
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- Copyright date:
- 2006
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Pharyngeal carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in 2-19-year-old individuals in Uganda.
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