Risk factors for meningococcal meningitis in northern Ghana
- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 95 (5) , 477-480
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0035-9203(01)90007-0
Abstract
Meningococcal meningitis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the meningitis belt of sub-Saharan Africa where it occurs in epidemics everyKeywords
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