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Title
Severity of meningococcal disease associated with genomic bacterial load.
Authors
Darton, Tom; Guiver, Malcolm; Naylor, Simone; Jack, Dominic L; Kaczmarski, Edward B; Borrow, Raymond; Read, Robert C
Abstract
Diagnostic polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection of Neisseria meningitidis has enabled accurate quantification of the bacterial load in patients with meningococcal disease.
Publication
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 5, p587