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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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Skin biopsy in adult patients with meningococcal purpura fulminans: a multicenter retrospective cohort study

Critical Care, 2023
Background Neisseria meningitidis is the leading responsible bacterium of Purpura Fulminans (PF) accounting for two thirds of PF. Skin biopsy is a simple and minimally invasive exam allowing to perform skin culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to ...
Damien Contou, Gaëtan Béduneau, Charlotte Rabault, Romain Sonneville, Antoine Marchalot, Rémi Coudroy, Damien Roux, Martin Cour, Julien Massol, Sébastien Préau, Nicolas de Prost, The HOPEFUL Study Group   +11 more
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Evaluation of pharyngeal carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in Tehran, Iran

New Microbes and New Infections, 2022
Meningitis and meningococcal septicemia are potentially life-threatening illnesses; young people in educational institutions have been repeatedly exposed to outbreaks of meningococcal infections.
A. Fahimzad, M. Khatmi, F. Shiva, S.E. Mortazavi, F. Shirvani, F.A. Gorji   +5 more
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Neisseria meningitidis Antimicrobial Resistance in Italy, 2006 to 2016

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2018
The aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial susceptibilities of 866 Neisseria meningitidis invasive strains during 11 years of surveillance in Italy. Two and six strains were resistant to ciprofloxacin and rifampin, respectively. ABSTRACT The
P. Vacca, C. Fazio, A. Neri, Luigina Ambrosio, A. Palmieri, P. Stefanelli   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

WGS analysis of a penicillin-resistant Neisseria meningitidis strain containing a chromosomal ROB-1 β-lactamase gene

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2018
Objectives Neisseria meningitidis is rarely penicillin resistant. We describe WGS analysis of a penicillin-resistant N. meningitidis collected from a case of invasive meningococcal disease.
R. Tsang, Tauqeer Ahmad, F. Jamieson, G. Tyrrell   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Genome flexibility in Neisseria meningitidis

Vaccine, 2009
Neisseria meningitidis usually lives as a commensal bacterium in the upper airways of humans. However, occasionally some strains can also cause life-threatening diseases such as sepsis and bacterial meningitis. Comparative genomics demonstrates that only very subtle genetic differences between carriage and disease strains might be responsible for the ...
Hervé Tettelin, Matthias Frosch, Christoph Schoen, Julian Parkhill   +3 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
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiological Characteristics of Meningococcal Meningitis (2016 to 2018) Four Years after the Introduction of Serogroup A Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Benin

Advances in Public Health, 2020
Objectives. This study aims to study the epidemiological and geographic characteristics of the meningococcal serogroups four years after the introduction of serogroup A meningococcal conjugate vaccine. Methods.
Togbemabou Primous Martial Godjedo, Alidehou Jerrold Agbankpe, Moussiliou Noël Paraiso, Tamegnon Victorien Dougnon, Marie Hidjo, Lamine Baba-Moussa, Honore Bankole   +6 more
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The comparative population genetics of Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae

PeerJ, 2018
Neisseria meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae are closely related pathogenic bacteria. To compare their population genetics, we compiled a dataset of 1,145 genes found across 20 N. meningitidis and 15 N. gonorrhoeae genomes. We find that N.
L. Vigué, A. Eyre-Walker
semanticscholar   +1 more source