Carriage of Meningococci by University Students, United Kingdom
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form at the Infectious Diseases Society of America conference, October 2010, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We acknowledge the assistance of NTMir.org in helping to fund this study. The work of K.L.W. was funded by an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant (1K08HS017552-01) and a grant from NTMir.org. Kevin L. Winthrop, Cara D. Varley, Jill Ory, P. Maureen Cassidy, and Katrina Hedberg Author affi liations: Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA (K.L. Winthrop, C.D. Varley); Oregon Public Health Division, Portland (K.L. Winthrop, P.M. Cassidy, K. Hedberg); and Ory Consulting, Portland (J. Ory) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1709.101929
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دوره 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011