Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2004)

Neisseria meningitidis W135, Turkey

  • Levent Doganci,
  • Mehmet Baysallar,
  • Mehmet Ali Saracli,
  • Gulsen Hascelik,
  • Alaaddin Pahsa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1005.030572
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 5
pp. 936 – 937

Abstract

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We describe the first case of Neisseria meningitidis W135 meningitis in Turkey. The strain was genotypically unrelated to the clone (W)ET-37, isolated from Hajj pilgrims in 2000.

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