Prevalence of Neisseria meningitidis carriers in children under five years of age and teenagers in certain populations of Mexico City Prevalencia de portadores de Neisseria meningitidis en niños menores de cinco años de edad y adolescentes en determinadas poblaciones de la Ciudad de México

• Main Authors: Luz Elena Espinosa de los Monteros (Author), Felipe Aguilar-Ituarte (Author), Leticia Verónica Jiménez-Rojas (Author), Pablo Kuri (Author), Romeo S Rodríguez-Suárez (Author), Demóstenes Gómez-Barreto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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OBJECTIVE: To carry out a pilot study to discover the frequency of colonization in healthy children under five years old and teenagers, as well as the distribution of the different N. meningitidis serogroups isolated from nasopharyngeal samples collected from the population under study. MATERIAL AND...