Identification of the hypervirulent lineages of Neisseria meningitidis, the ST-8 and ST-11 complexes, by using monoclonal antibodies specific to NmeDI

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3873-3876

  Claus, Heike ^a   Weinand, Hanne ^a   Frosch, Matthias ^a   Vogel, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NMEDI ENDONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; HUMANS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0041522311     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.8.3873-3876.2003     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Achtman, M. 1995. Global epidemiology of meningococcal disease, p. 159-175. In K. Cartwright (ed.), Meningococcal disease. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, England.
2. Alber, D., M. Oberkötter, S. Suerbaum, H. Claus, M. Frosch, and U. Vogel. 2001. Genetic diversity of Neisseria lactamica from epidemiologically defined carriers. J. Clin. Microbiol. 39:1710-1715.
3. Caugant, D. A., L. O. Froholm, K. Bovre, E. Holten, C. E. Frasch, L. F. Mocca, W. D. Zollinger, and R. K. Selander. 1986. Intercontinental spread of a genetically distinctive complex of clones of Neisseria meningitidis causing epidemic disease. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83:4927-4931.
4. Caugant, D. A., L. F. Mocca, C. E. Frasch, L. O. Froholm, W. D. Zollinger, and R. K. Selander. 1987. Genetic structure of Neisseria meningitidis populations in relation to serogroup, serotype, and outer membrane protein pattern. J. Bacteriol. 169:2781-2792.
5. Claus, H., A. Friedrich, M. Frosch, and U. Vogel. 2000. Differential distribution of two novel restriction-modification systems in clonal lineages of Neisseria meningitidis. J. Bacteriol. 182:1296-1303.
6. Claus, H., M. C. Maiden, R. Maag, M. Frosch, and U. Vogel. 2002. Many carried meningococci lack the genes required for capsule synthesis and transport. Microbiology 148:1813-1819.
7. Claus, H., J. Stoevesandt, M. Frosch, and U. Vogel. 2000. Genetic isolation of meningococci of the electrophoretic type 37 complex. J. Bacteriol. 183:2570-2575.
8. Frosch, M., I. Gorgen, G. J. Boulnois, K. N. Timmis, and D. Bitter-Suermann. 1985. NZB mouse system for production of monoclonal antibodies to weak bacterial antigens: isolation of an IgG antibody to the polysaccharide capsules of Escherichia coli K1 and group B meningococci. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82:1194-1198.
9. Maiden, M. C., J. A. Bygraves, E. Feil, G. Morelli, J. E. Russell, R. Urwin, Q. Zhang, J. Zhou, K. Zurth, D. A. Caugant, I. M. Feavers, M. Achtman, and B. G. Spratt. 1998. Multilocus sequence typing: a portable approach to the identification of clones within populations of pathogenic microorganisms. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95:3140-3145.
10. Peters, J. H., H. Baumgarten, and M. Schulze. 1985. Monoklonale Antikörper. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
11. Vogel, U., A. Weinberger, R. Frank, A. Muller, J. Kohl, J. P. Atkinson, and M. Frosch. 1997. Complement factor C3 deposition and serum resistance in isogenic capsule and LOS sialic acid mutants of serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis. Infect. Immun. 65:4022-4029.