| Title | Laboratory Confirmation of A Suspicious Meningococcal Meningitis Death Case |
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| Author | Tie-gang Zhang*1, Xiong He1, Li-juan Chen1, Jing-guo He1, Ming Luo1, Jie Yang1, Zhu-jun Shao2, and Mei-ping Sun1 |
| Address | 1Institute of Immunization and Prevention of Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control. 16, Hepingli Middle Avenue, Beijing 100013, China, 2National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC. 5, Liuzi, Changping District of Beijing 102206, China |
| Bibliography | Journal of Microbiology, 44(4),p.457-460, 2006, |
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| Key Words | Neisseria meningitidis, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, multilocus sequence typing, serogroup |
| 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. |
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