Influence of Two Vaccination Campaigns on Genetic Diversity of Invasive Neisseria meningitidis Isolates in Northern Spain (1997–2008)

• Diego Vicente,

  Affiliations Microbiology Service and Reference Laboratory for Meningococcal Infections of the Basque Country, Hospital Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain, Biomedical Research Centre Network for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), San Sebastián, Spain

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• Olatz Esnal,

  Affiliation Biomedical Research Centre Network for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), San Sebastián, Spain

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• M. José López de Goicoechea,

  Affiliation Microbiology Service, Hospital Galdakao, Galdakao, Bizkaia, Spain

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• Ramón Cisterna,

  Affiliation Microbiology Service, Hospital Basurto, Bilbao, Spain

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• Emilio Pérez-Trallero

  * E-mail: mikrobiol@terra.es

  Affiliations Microbiology Service and Reference Laboratory for Meningococcal Infections of the Basque Country, Hospital Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain, Biomedical Research Centre Network for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), San Sebastián, Spain, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain

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