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Laboratory Confirmation of A Suspicious Meningococcal Meningitis Death Case  

Zhang Tie-Gang (Institute of Immunization and Prevention of Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control)
He Xiong (Institute of Immunization and Prevention of Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control)
Chen Li-Juan (Institute of Immunization and Prevention of Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control)
He Jing-Guo (Institute of Immunization and Prevention of Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control)
Luo Ming (Institute of Immunization and Prevention of Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control)
Yang Jie (Institute of Immunization and Prevention of Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control)
Shao Zhu-Jun (National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC)
Sun Mei-Ping (Institute of Immunization and Prevention of Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control)
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Journal of Microbiology / v.44, no.4, 2006 , pp. 457-460 More about this Journal
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Neisseria meningitidis; pulsed-field gel electrophoresis; multilocus sequence typing; serogroup;
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