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Meningococcal vaccine antigen diversity in global databases.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 1 Jan 2015
Brehony Carina, Hill Dorothea M, Lucidarme Jay, Borrow Ray, Maiden Martin C
Abstract excerpt
The lack of an anti-capsular vaccine against serogroup B meningococcal disease has necessitated the exploration of alternative vaccine candidates, mostly proteins exhibiting varying degrees of antigenic variation. Analysis of variants of antigen-encoding genes is facilitated by publicly accessible online sequence repositories, such as the Neisseria PubMLST database and the associated Meningitis Research...
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