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J. Clin. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/JCM.01190-07
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Molecular epidemiology of Neisseria meningitidis isolates from an outbreak of meningococcal disease among men who have sex with men, Chicago, 2003

Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois; Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: zma6{at}cdc.gov.

	Abstract

We characterized five Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C isolates from a Chicago outbreak of meningococcal disease that occurred in 2003 among a community of men who have sex with men (MSM). Isolates from this outbreak were identical, but distinct from the clone that caused a similar outbreak in Canada in 2001.