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Microbial Diversity in the Human Mouth: Dominant Genera and their Interactions. [PDF]

, 2010
Investigations seeking definition of the microbial diversity present in the human oral cavity have been underway for many years. These investigations seek to define the normal microflora of the oral cavity, as well as the stability of the microflora ...
Fergusson, Stacey Victoria
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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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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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Neisseria meningitidis differentially controls host cell motility through PilC1 and PilC2 components of type IV pili [PDF]

, 2009
Neisseria meningitidis is a strictly human pathogen that has two facets since asymptomatic carriage can unpredictably turn into fulminant forms of infection.
Thomas F Meyer, Drab Marek, Meyer Thomas F., Nassif Xavier, Morand, P., Morand, Philippe C., Drab, Marek, Rajalingam, K., Meyer, T., Morand Philippe C., Xavier Nassif, Marek Drab, Drab, M., Philippe C Morand, Nassif, Xavier, Krishnaraj Rajalingam, Rajalingam Krishnaraj, Rajalingam, Krishnaraj, Nassif, X., Meyer, Thomas F.   +19 more
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The structure of a reduced form of OxyR from Neisseria meningitidis [PDF]

, 2010
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work
Nettleship, JE, Jingshan Ren, Joanne E Nettleship, David I Stuart, Saunders, NJ, Sarah Sainsbury, Sainsbury, S, Owens, RJ, Ren, J, Raymond J Owens, Nigel J Saunders, Stuart, DI   +11 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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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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Adjuvants : an essential component of neisseria vaccines [PDF]

, 2009
Adjuvants may be classified into delivery systems and immune potentiator or modulator molecules based on their mechanism of action. Neisseria vaccines containing traditional adjuvants such as aluminium salts have existed for long time, but meningitis ...
Acevedo, R., del Campo, J., Zayas, C., Cuello, M., Romeu, B., Ferro, Valerie A., Gonzales, E., Cabrera, O., Balbao, J.   +8 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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Sulphonamide resistant commensal Neisseria with alterations in the dihydropteroate synthase can be isolated from carriers not exposed to sulphonamides

BMC Microbiology, 2002
Background Development of sulphonamide resistance in Neisseria meningitidis has been suggested to involve horizontal DNA-transfer from a commensal Neisseria species.
Swedberg Göte, Qvarnström Yvonne
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