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Population-based survey of invasive bacterial diseases, Greenland, 1995-2004
Annette Meyer1, Karin Ladefoged, Peter Poulsen
1Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|February 9, 2008
Abstract:
Invasive bacterial disease occurs frequently among native populations in the Arctic. Although a variety of bacteria are involved in invasive bacterial disease in Greenland, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and other staphylococci are responsible for most cases (69%); incidence varies according to region and ethnicity.
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