Invasive meningococcal disease epidemiology and characterization of Neisseria meningitidis serogroups, sequence types, and clones; implication for use of meningococcal vaccines

• Main Authors: Chen Stein-Zamir (Author), Hanna Shoob (Author), Nitza Abramson (Author), Colin Block (Author), Natan Keller (Author), Joseph Jaffe (Author), Lea Valinsky (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background and aims: Neisseria meningitidis (N. meningitidis) is a Gram-negative bacterium that can cause life-threatening invasive infections referred to as invasive meningococcal disease (IMD). In the last decade the incidence of IMD in Israel is about 1/100,000 population annually. We aimed to de...