Multilocus sequence typing and repetitive element-based polymerase chain reaction analysis of Neisseria meningitidis isolates in Brazil reveal the emergence of 11 new sequence types genetically related to the ST-32 and ST-41/44 complexes and high prevalence of strains related to hypervirulent lineages

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 161-167

  De Filippis, Ivano ^a   Vicente, Ana Carolina Paulo ^b  

^a Oswaldo Cruz Foundation   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil hypervirulent lineages; MLST analysis; Neisseria meningitidis; Rep PCR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BRAZIL; DNA, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 27744518395     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2005.06.015     Document Type: Article

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