Article
Characterization of epidemic and nonepidemic Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A strains from Sudan and Sweden.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 1990
Salih M A, Danielsson D, Bäckman A, Caugant D A, Achtman M, Olcén P
Abstract excerpt
A random selection of 25 strains isolated during an epidemic caused by serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis in Sudan (1988), 3 preepidemic meningococcal strains (1985), and 26 serogroup A strains isolated from sporadic cases of meningitis in Sweden (1973 to 1987) were assessed for multilocus enzyme...
Topics
- Antigenic Variation
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Child
- Disease Outbreaks
- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Humans
- Lipopolysaccharides
- Meningitis
- Neisseria meningitidis
- Phenotype
- Prevalence
- Restriction Mapping
- Sudan
- Sweden