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Whole genome sequencing to investigate the emergence of clonal complex 23 Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y disease in the United States.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Krauland Mary G, Dunning Hotopp Julie C, Riley David R, Daugherty Sean C, Marsh Jane W, Messonnier Nancy E, Mayer Leonard W, Tettelin Hervé, Harrison Lee H
Abstract excerpt
In the United States, serogroup Y, ST-23 clonal complex Neisseria meningitidis was responsible for an increase in meningococcal disease incidence during the 1990s. This increase was accompanied by antigenic shift of three outer membrane proteins, with a decrease in the population that predominated in the early 1990s as a different population emerged later in that decade. To understand factors that may have been...
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