International Circumpolar Surveillance Interlaboratory Quality Control Program for Serotyping Haemophilus influenzae and Serogrouping Neisseria meningitidis, 2005 to 2009

• Published in: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
• Main Authors: Tsang, Raymond S. W., Rudolph, Karen, Lovgren, Marguerite, Bekal, Sadjia, Lefebvre, Brigitte, Lambertsen, Lotte, Zulz, Tammy, Bruce, Michael
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2012
• Subjects: Bacteriology; Anchorage; Arctic; Canada; Sainte-Anne
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295160; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22170933; https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.05084-11

The International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) program was initiated in 1999 to conduct population-based surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease in select regions of the Arctic. The program was expanded to include the surveillance of invasive diseases caused by Neisseria meningitidis and Ha...