Lack of antigenic diversification of major outer membrane proteins during clonal waves of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A colonization and disease

Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-10

  Huber, Charlotte A ^a,b   Pflüger, Valentin ^a,b   Hamid, Abdul Wahab M ^c   Forgor, Abudulai A ^c   Hodgson, Abraham ^c   Sié, Ali ^d   Junghanss, Thomas ^e   Pluschke, Gerd ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ghana)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN SANTÉ DE NOUNA   (Burkina Faso)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Herd immunity; Neisseria meningitidis; Outer membrane protein

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN A; PROTEIN FETA; PROTEIN OPA; PROTEIN PORB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERD IMMUNITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; OPA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BURKINA FASO; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GHANA; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP A; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84878147759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2049632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2049-632X.12000     Document Type: Article

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