- Laboratory Confirmation of A Suspicious Meningococcal Meningitis Death Case
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Tie-gang Zhang , Xiong He , Li-juan Chen , Jing-guo He , Ming Luo , Jie Yang , Zhu-jun Shao , Mei-ping Sun
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J. Microbiol. 2006;44(4):457-460.
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DOI: https://doi.org/2405 [pii]
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Abstract
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A suspicious meningococcal meningitis death case was reported to the Beijing CDC. The blood specimen was analyzed via multi-PCR and MLST. 6 isolates from close contacts were analyzed via PFGE and MLST. According to the results of the above analyses, the cause of this case was identified as a serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis, which, in terms of sequence typing, belonged the ST7 group.
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