Letter to the editor

Affiliations

¹ Vaccine Preventable Bacterial Diseases, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada.
² Public Health Ontario Laboratory, Public Health Ontario, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
³ Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec, Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Ste-Anne-de Bellevue.
⁴ Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec, Laval University, Laval, Québec.

Raymond Sw Tsang et al. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol. 2014 Spring.

. 2014 Spring;25(1):8-38.

doi: 10.1155/2014/847192.

¹ Vaccine Preventable Bacterial Diseases, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada.
² Public Health Ontario Laboratory, Public Health Ontario, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
³ Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec, Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Ste-Anne-de Bellevue.
⁴ Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec, Laval University, Laval, Québec.

No abstract available

Comment on

Emerging sequence type-269 serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis has the potential to cause outbreaks. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol 2014;25(1):8.

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