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Carriage rate of Neisseria meningitidis, antibiotic susceptibility pattern and associated risk factors among primary school children in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05080-w

Published Online: 2020-05-20

Published Print: 2020-12

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Tefera, Zelalem

Mekonnen, Feleke

Tiruneh, Moges

Belachew, Teshome https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4350-9803
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Received: 12 July 2019

Accepted: 11 May 2020

First Online: 20 May 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: An ethical clearance letter was obtained from the Departmental Research and Ethics Review Committee of school of biomedical laboratory science. The reference number of the ethical letter was “Ref no- SBMLS/2123/11”. This ethical letter was obtained from Mr. Mekonnen Girma (), Markos Negash () and Bamilaku Enawgaw (). Written consent was obtained from participants and informed as their participation was voluntary. Study participants were also informed about the purpose of the study. Confidentiality was maintained at all levels of the study. In addition, study participants involvement was based on a voluntary basis and participants who were unwilling to take part in the study and those who need to quit their participation at any stage were informed to do so without any restriction. Consent to participate was obtained from the parents/guardians of study participants under the age of 16.

: All authors read the manuscript and have provided their consent to publish.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interest.

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