Erratum
Characterization of Neisseria meningitidis isolates collected from 1974 to 2003 in Japan by multilocus sequence typing, by H. Takahashi, T. Kuroki, Y. Watanabe, H. Tanaka, H. Inouye, S. Yamai and H. Watanabe.
Journal of Medical Microbiology vol. 53, part 7, pp. 657 - 662
In the Introduction (p. 657), the sentence 'However, with the introduction of a meningococcal vaccine, the number of cases has rapidly decreased, and at present stands at only approximately ten per year for meningococcal meningitis' should read 'However, without the introduction of a meningococcal vaccine, the number of cases has rapidly decreased, and at present stands at only approximately ten per year for meningococcal meningitis'.