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SUBMITTER: Basta NE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5790055 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Basta Nicole E NE Berthe Abdoulaye A Keita Mahamadou M Onwuchekwa Uma U Tamboura Boubou B Traore Awa A Hassan-King Musa M Manigart Olivier O Nascimento Maria M Stuart James M JM Trotter Caroline C Blake Jayne J Carr Anthony D AD Gray Stephen J SJ Newbold Lynne S LS Deng Yangqing Y Wolfson Julian J Halloran M Elizabeth ME Greenwood Brian B Borrow Ray R Sow Samba O SO
The Journal of infection 20171129 2
<h4>Objectives</h4>Carriers of Neisseria meningitidis are a key source of transmission. In the African meningitis belt, where risk of meningococcal disease is highest, a greater understanding of meningococcal carriage dynamics is needed.<h4>Methods</h4>We randomly selected an age-stratified sample of 400 residents from 116 households in Bamako, Mali, and collected pharyngeal swabs in May 2010. A month later, we enrolled all 202 residents of 20 of these households (6 with known carriers) and coll ...[more]