Transmission of N. meningitidis Serogroup W, ST-11 During an International Flight
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648. Identical Strain of Mycobacterium conceptionense Isolated from Patients at 2 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers within the Same Metropolitan Area over a 4 Year Period Gina Oda, MS; Mark Winters, MS; Susan M. Pacheco, MD; Monica Sikka, MD; Susan Bleasdale, MD; Bruce Dunn, MD; Benjamin Winters, BS; Etta McDuffee, RN; Amelia Bumsted, RN and Mark Holodniy, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA; Public Health Surveillance and Research, Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto, California, Stanford University, Stanford, California, Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, Illinois, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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