Contribution of academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.I. Pokrovsky and staff of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Russian University of Medicine in the study of meningococcal infection

• Mishel I. Makhul
• Semen L. Maksimov
• Konstantin A. Pashkov

Abstract

The article presents material from scientific articles, the results of dissertations by аcademician V.I. Pokrovsky and staff of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology of the Medical Faculty of the Scientific and Educational Institute of Clinical Medicine named after N.A. Semashko of the Russian University of Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, published on the problems of meningococcal infection, from 1965 to 2017.

Keywords: meningococcal infection; V.I. Pokrovsky; history

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