Meningococcal Disease in Children in Merseyside, England: A 31 Year Descriptive Study

• Michelle C. Stanton ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle C. Stanton, David Taylor-Robinson

  * E-mail: m.stanton@lancaster.ac.uk

  Affiliation Lancaster Medical School, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

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• David Taylor-Robinson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michelle C. Stanton, David Taylor-Robinson

  Affiliation Department of Health Inequalities and the Social Determinants of Health, Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• David Harris,

  Affiliation Department of Women's and Children's Health, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Fauzia Paize,

  Affiliation Department of Women's and Children's Health, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Nick Makwana,

  Affiliation Department of Child Health, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, Lyndon, West Bromwich, West Midlands, United Kingdom

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• Scott J. Hackett,

  Affiliation Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Paul B. Baines,

  Affiliations Department of Professional Ethics, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• F. Andrew I. Riordan,

  Affiliation Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Omnia Marzouk,

  Affiliation Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Alistair P. J. Thomson,

  Affiliation Leighton Hospital, Crewe, Cheshire, United Kingdom

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• Peter J. Diggle,

  Affiliation Lancaster Medical School, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

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• C. Anthony Hart †,

  † Deceased.

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Enitan D. Carrol

  Affiliations Department of Women's and Children's Health, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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