Meningococcal serogroup Y lpxL1 variants from South Africa are associated with clonal complex 23 among young adults

Journal of Infection

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 455-461

  Du Plessis, Mignon ^a,b,c   Wolter, Nicole ^a,b,c   Crowther Gibson, Penny ^a   Hamstra, Hendrik Jan ^d   Schipper, Kim ^e   Moodley, Chivonne ^a,b   Cohen, Cheryl ^a,f   Van de Beek, Diederik ^e   Van der Ley, Peter ^d   Von Gottberg, Anne ^a,b,c   Van der Ende, Arie ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Clonal complex 23; LpxL; MLST; Neisseria meningitidis; Serogroup Y; South Africa

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; ACYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LPXL PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LPXL1 GENE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; SECRETION (PROCESS); VERY ELDERLY;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP Y; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897965195     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: 15322742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2013.12.011     Document Type: Article

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