Temporal associations between national outbreaks of meningococcal serogroup W and C disease in the Netherlands and England: an observational cohort study

Temporal associations between national outbreaks of meningococcal serogroup W and C disease in the Netherlands and England: an observational cohort study

Background: Since 2009, the incidence of meningococcal serogroup W disease has increased rapidly in the UK because of a single strain (the so-called original UK strain) belonging to the hypervirulent sequence type-11 clonal complex (cc11), with a variant outbreak strain (the so-called 2013 strain) e...

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Main Authors: Dr Mirjam J Knol, PhD, Susan J M Hahné, PhD, Jay Lucidarme, PhD, Helen Campbell, MSc, Hester E de Melker, PhD, Stephen J Gray, PhD, Prof Ray Borrow, FRCPath, Shamez N Ladhani, MRCPCH, Mary E Ramsay, FFPHM, Arie van der Ende, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-10-01
Series:The Lancet Public Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468266717301573

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