Emergence and genomic diversification of a virulent serogroup W:ST-2881(CC175) Neisseria meningitidis clone in the African meningitis belt

Countries of the African ‘meningitis belt’ are susceptible to meningococcal meningitis outbreaks. While in the past major epidemics have been primarily caused by serogroup A meningococci, W strains are currently responsible for most of the cases. After an epidemic in Mecca in 2000, W:ST-11 strains h...

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Autores principales: Lamelas, Araceli, Hauser, Julia, Dangy, Jean-Pierre, Hamid, Abdul-Wahab M., Röltgen, Katharina, Abdul Sater, Mohamad R., Hodgson, Abraham, Sie, Ali, Junghanss, Thomas, Harris, Simon R., Parkhill, Julian, Bentley, Stephen D., Pluschke, Gerd
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Microbiology Society 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5610715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29026659
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000120

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