Fit genotypes and escape variants of subgroup III Neisseria meningitidis during three pandemics of epidemic meningitis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 5234-5239

  Zhu, Peixuan ^a,i   Van Der Ende, Arie ^b   Falush, Daniel ^a   Brieske, Norbert ^a   Morelli, Giovanna ^a   Linz, Bodo ^a   Popovic, Tanja ^c   Schuurman, Ilse G A ^b   Adegbola, Richard A ^d   Zurth, Kerstin ^a   Gagneux, Sébastien ^e   Platonov, Alexander E ^f   Riou, Jean Yves ^g,j   Caugant, Dominique A ^h   Nicolas, Pierre ^h   Achtman, Mark ^a,k  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^e SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^g INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^h WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

ⁱ CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^j Food and Drug Administration ^*  (France)

^k MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Clonal descent; Genetic variation; Intercontinental spread; Microevolution; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, DOMINANT; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0035942267     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.061386098     Document Type: Article

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