| serogroups, serotypes, serosubtypes and antimicrobial susceptibility of neisseria meningitidis isolates in casablanca, morocco. | since antigenic characterization and antibiotic susceptibility testing are useful for generating prophylactic recommendations and treatment guidelines, a total of 163 neisseria meningitidis isolates obtained between january 1992 and september 2000 at the microbiology laboratory of the ibnrochd university hospital of casablanca, morocco, were serogrouped, serotyped, serosubtyped and tested for their susceptibility to five antibiotics. serogroup b was detected most frequently (75.5%), followed by ... | 2002 | 12111610 |
| the prevalence of sexually transmitted pathogens in patients presenting to a casablanca std clinic. | the objective of this study conducted at the sexually transmitted diseases (std) clinic of the pasteur institute of morocco (scpim) is to describe clinical complaints and biological findings in patients attending this facility. two thousand two hundred sixty-four patients had visited the std clinic from 1992 to 1996. the main reported symptom was genital discharge for men (44.5%) and women (68.6%). genital eruption and ulcer were more frequent in men. the principal biological result shows a sero ... | 1999 | 10555614 |
| [use of multilocus sequence typing and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for the study of serogroup b neisseria meningitidis isolates from casablanca (morocco)]. | a previous study showed that b:4:p1.15 was the most frequent phenotype of neisseria meningitidis isolated in casablanca (morocco). to determine if there was an epidemic clone, mlst and pfge were used to compare 13 b:4:p1.15 strains isolated from september 1999 to december 2000. mlst showed 4 sequence types (st): st-33 was the most frequent st (9/13 strains) and 4 strains belonged to 3 newly described sts. twelve stains belonged to st-32 complex, and one strain presenting a new st (st-2502) did n ... | 2006 | 16442242 |