Manual of Clinical Microbiology, Volume 1Includes information on infection detection and prevention and control, diagnostic technologies, bacteriology, antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and antiparasitic agents and susceptibility test methods, virology, mycology, and parasitology. |
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... individuals . Approximately 25 to 30 % of healthy adults in the commu- nity harbor this organism in their anterior nares at any given time , 15 % permanently and the remaining 15 % tran- siently ( 58 ) . Nasopharynx Colonization of the ...
... individuals . Approximately 25 to 30 % of healthy adults in the commu- nity harbor this organism in their anterior nares at any given time , 15 % permanently and the remaining 15 % tran- siently ( 58 ) . Nasopharynx Colonization of the ...
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... Individuals who are colonized with nongroupable strains also develop high titers of antibody against groupable strains , probably due to shared antigenic determinants . This response does not eliminate the carriage state , but it may ...
... Individuals who are colonized with nongroupable strains also develop high titers of antibody against groupable strains , probably due to shared antigenic determinants . This response does not eliminate the carriage state , but it may ...
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... individuals attend- ing sexually transmitted disease clinics , since these individ- uals are often chronically or repeatedly infected , making new seroconversions difficult to identify . In general , first attacks of chlamydial ...
... individuals attend- ing sexually transmitted disease clinics , since these individ- uals are often chronically or repeatedly infected , making new seroconversions difficult to identify . In general , first attacks of chlamydial ...
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