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Detection of the United States Neisseria meningitidis urethritis clade in the United Kingdom, August and December 2019 - emergence of multiple antibiotic resistance calls for vigilance. [PDF]

, 2020
Since 2015 in the United States (US), the US Neisseria meningitidis urethritis clade (US_NmUC) has caused a large multistate outbreak of urethritis among heterosexual males.
Borrow, R, Brooks, A, Campbell, H, Campbell, L, Fifer, H, Gray, S, Hughes, G, Ladhani, SN, Lekshmi, A, Lucidarme, J, Ramsay, ME, Rayment, M, Schembri, G   +12 more
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Early-onset neonatal sepsis caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B: case report and literature review of a 102-year period

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2020
A 36-week-2-day-old male infant was admitted to the neonatal unit with respiratory distress, hypoglycaemia and suspected early onset neonatal sepsis for respiratory support, monitoring and intravenous antibiotics.
Tayyib Mubashar, Paul Christopher Turner, Siba Prosad Paul   +2 more
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The Landscape of Realized Homologous Recombination in Pathogenic Bacteria [PDF]

, 2015
Recombination enhances the adaptive potential of organisms by allowing genetic variants to be tested on multiple genomic backgrounds. Its distribution in the genome can provide insight into the evolutionary forces that underlie traits, such as the ...
Didelot, X, Falush, D, Jolley, KA, Kobayashi, I, Maiden, MCJ, Sheppard, SK, Yahara, K   +6 more
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Neisseria meningitidis and cytomegalovirus simultaneous detection in the filmarray meningitis/encephalitis panel and its clinical relevance

IDCases, 2019
A BioFire FilmArray Meningitis/Encephalitis test was performed on a 7-month old child suspected for bacterial meningitis. Two pathogens were detected, Neisseria meningitidis and cytomegalovirus (CMV).
Nadav Sorek, Shai Ashkenazi, Gilat Livni, Haim Ben-Zvi   +3 more
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The Hajj 2019 Vaccine Requirements and Possible New Challenges [PDF]

, 2019
Each year millions of pilgrims perform the annual Hajj from more than 180 countries around the world. This is one of the largest mass gathering events and may result in the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases.
Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A., Memish, Ziad A.
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Neisseria meningitidis Infecting a Prosthetic Knee Joint: A New Case of an Unusual Disease

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2017
Primary meningococcal meningitis is an infrequent but known disease. However, the infection of a prosthetic joint with Neisseria meningitidis is rare.
Berta Becerril Carral, Elvira Alarcón Manoja, Salvador López Cárdenas, Jesús Canueto Quintero   +3 more
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Identification of the nasopharyngeal carriage of Neisseria meningitidis by 16S rRNA Gene sequencing in asymptomatic adolescents and young adults in Cartagena, Colombia (2019–2020).

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
The bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, a strictly human pathogen, can cause meningitis, meningococcemia, sepsis, and death; repeatedly it scause outbreaks around the world.
Marlon Macias-Mendoza, Biol. MSc, Alfredo Montes-Robledo, Biol. MSc, Cindy Arteta-Acosta, MD, MPH, PhD (C), Rosa Baldiris-Avila, QF, PhD, Wilfrido Coronell-Rodríguez, MD, pediatric infectious disease, PhD.   +4 more
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Invasive meningococcal disease in the Veneto region of Italy: A capture-recapture analysis for assessing the effectiveness of an integrated surveillance system [PDF]

, 2017
open8noBACKGROUND: Epidemiology of Neisseria meningitidis has been changing since the introduction of universal vaccination programmes against meningococcal serogroup C (MenC) and meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) has now become dominant.
Baldo, Vincenzo, Baldovin, Tatjana, Bertoncello, Chiara, Cocchio, Silvia, Furlan, Patrizia, Lazzari, Roberta, Russo, Francesca, Saia, Mario   +7 more
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Structural and mechanistic basis of capsule O-acetylation in Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A

Nature Communications, 2020
Neisseria meningitidis capsular polysaccharide (CPS) is a major virulence factor and vaccine formulations against Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A (NmA) contain O-acetylated CPS.
Timm Fiebig, Johannes T. Cramer, Andrea Bethe, Petra Baruch, Ute Curth, Jana I. Führing, Falk F. R. Buettner, Ulrich Vogel, Mario Schubert, Roman Fedorov, Martina Mühlenhoff   +10 more
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A cross-sectional study assessing the pharyngeal carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in subjects aged 1–24 years in the city of Embu das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017
Meningococcal carriage is a prerequisite for invasive infection. This cross-sectional study assessed the pharyngeal carriage prevalence in healthy subjects aged 1–24 years in Embu das Artes city, São Paulo, Brazil.
Lily Yin Weckx, Rosana Fiorini Puccini, Antónia Machado, Maria Gisele Gonçalves, Suely Tuboi, Eliana de Barros, Raghavendra Devadiga, Eduardo Ortega-Barria, Romulo Colindres   +8 more
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