Suspected Materno-Fetal Transmission of Serogroup W Clonal Complex 11 Causing Early-Onset Neonatal Sepsis

Overview

Journal Open Forum Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2020 Feb 27

PMID 32099848

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Authors

Timothy Gilbey

Christopher McIver

Ulrike Brandenburg

Emma Goeman

Adam Polkinghorne

Monica Lahra

James Branley

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