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Variations inNeisseria meningitidiscarriage by socioeconomic status: a cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Paul Cleary,
N Calvert,
Sarah Gee,
Christine Graham,
Steve Gray,
Edward B. Kaczmarski,
John Morphet,
Louise B. Murphy,
Neville Q. Verlander,
Tom Wood,
Ray Borrow
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdv015
Subject(s) - carriage , neisseria meningitidis , meningococcal disease , socioeconomic status , medicine , neisseriaceae , public health , cross sectional study , epidemiology , environmental health , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , population , antibiotics , bacteria , genetics , pathology , nursing
Deprivation is associated with an increased risk of invasive Neisseria meningitidis disease, but little is known about the relationship between deprivation and asymptomatic carriage of N. meningitidis. This analysis was conducted to examine the relationship between meningococcal carriage and deprivation.

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