Detection of a geographical and endemic cluster of hyper-invasive meningococcal strains

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 684-690

  Bertrand, Sophie ^a   Van Meervenne, Eva ^a   De Baere, Thierry ^a   Vanhoof, Raymond ^a   Collard, Jean Marc ^a,b   Ruckly, Corinne ^c   Taha, Muhamed ^c   Carion, Françoise ^a  

^a SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^b Centre de Recherche Medicale et Sanitaire Niamey   (Niger)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Cluster; Meningococcal infection; Monitoring; Multilocus sequence typing; Neisseria meningitidis; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BELGIUM; CHILD; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROTYPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BELGIUM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP B; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS SEROGROUP B;

EID: 79957680694     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2011.02.006     Document Type: Article

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