Meningococcal disease: has the battle been won?
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Meningococcal disease: has the battle been won?
Meningococcal disease is a worldwide life-threatening infection associated in many cases with debilitating long-term sequelae, both within the military and civilian populations. Military recruits are at a higher risk of acquiring this infection due to numerous factors, such as young recruits in the age group 18-25 years, high carriage rates of meningococci, communal and crowed living quarters a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0035-8665,2052-0468
DOI: 10.1136/jramc-2016-000695