The establishment of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 of the clonal complex ET-37/ST-11 as an epidemic clone and the persistence of serogroup A isolates in Burkina Faso
- 30 April 2005
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Microbes and Infection
- Vol. 7 (4) , 645-649
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2005.01.003
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