Epidemiology of Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in Healthy Dutch Children
- 15 March 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 40 (6) , 899-902
- https://doi.org/10.1086/428351
Abstract
We investigated the prevalence and determinants of nasopharyngeal carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in 3200 healthy children aged 1-19 years. The incidence of meningococcal carriage was, on average, 1.5%. Peak incidences were seen at age 1 year and after age 15 years. The independent determinants of meningococcal carriage included age, regular visits to youth clubs (odds ratio [OR], 2.2) and discotheques (OR, 4.3), and pneumococcal carriage (OR, 4.1).This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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