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Genetic lineages and their traits in Neisseria meningitidis.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM - 1 Sept 2004
Vogel Ulrich, Claus Heike, Frosch Matthias
Abstract excerpt
Neisseria meningitidis is a model organism for the study of bacterial population biology, for genome sequencing and pathogenicity research. In the recent years, our group has identified a variety of markers for hypervirulent lineages of meningococci, which in part could be validated for typing purposes. Furthermore, carrier strain collections of meningococci and N. lactamica were studied by multilocus sequence...
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