Clonal waves of neisseria colonisation and disease in the African meningitis belt: eight-year longitudinal study in northern Ghana

Authors :: Leimkugel, Julia
Hodgson, Abraham
Forgor, Abudulai Adams
Pfluger, Valentin
Dangy, Jean-Pierre
Smith, Tom
Achtman, Mark
Gagneux, Sebastien
Pluschke, Gerd
Source :: PLoS Medicine. March, 2007, Vol. 4 Issue 3, p535, 10 p.
Publication Year :: 2007
Abstract: ABSTRACT 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 [...]

Subjects :: Company distribution practices
Neisseria meningitidis -- Development and progression
Neisseria meningitidis -- Distribution
Meningitis -- Distribution
Meningitis -- Research

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