Comparison of posterior pharyngeal wall and nasopharyngeal swabbing as a means of detecting the carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in adolescents - Esposito, S.; Zampiero, A.; Terranova, L.; Montinaro, V.; Peves Rios, W.; Scala, A.; Ansuini, V.; Galeone, C.; Principi, N. (European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases, 2013)
Keywords: Adolescent; Adolescents; Bacterial diseases; Bacterial diseases of the nervous system. Bacterial myositis; Bacterial Load; Bacterial Proteins - genetics; Biological and medical sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Carrier State - microbiology; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures; DNA; DNA, Bacterial - analysis; Epidemiology; Female; Genomes; Genomics; Human bacterial diseases; Humans; Infectious diseases; Internal Medicine; Male; Medical Microbiology; Medical sciences; Meningococcal Infections - diagnosis; Meningococcal Infections - microbiology; Nasopharynx - microbiology; Neisseria meningitidis; Neisseria meningitidis - genetics; Neisseria meningitidis - isolation & purification; Pathogens; Pediatrics; Polymerase chain reaction; Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; Teenagers; Young Adult; United States--US; Italy; Carrier Status; Respiratory Secretion; Posterior Pharyngeal Wall; Throat Swab; Neisseria Meningitidis; Human; Microbiology; Neisseriaceae; Nasopharynx; Neisseria meningitidis; Pharynx; Infection; Adolescent; Bacteriosis; Bacteria; Micrococcales; Colonization; Comparative study; Meningococcal disease