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Science 6 September 1968:
Vol. 161. no. 3845, p. 1019
DOI: 10.1126/science.161.3845.1019
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Sulfadiazine-Resistant Group A Neisseria meningitidis

C. E. Alexander 1, W. R. Sanborn 1, G. Cherriere 1, W. H. Crocker Jr. 1, P. E. Ewald 1, and C. R. Kay 1

1 U.S. Naval Preventive Medicine Unit No. 7, Naples, Italy; U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, Cairo, Egypt, U.A.R.; and Laboratoire Regionale, Meknes, Morocco

A meningitis epidemic due to Group A meningococci was unusual in that most of the strains isolated from patients were generally resistant to sulfadiazine. This is the first report of sulfonamide resistance in an epidemic strain of Neisseria meningitidis Group A.

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