Sialic acids of both the capsule and the sialylated lipooligosaccharide of Neisseria meningitis serogroup B are prerequisites for virulence of meningococci in the infant rat.

Abstract excerpt

We investigated the contribution of the polysialic acid capsule and of terminal lipooligosaccharide (LOS) sialylation to the pathogenicity of Neisseria meningitidis in vivo using a set of defined isogenic mutants of the N. meningitidis strain B 1940 deficient in either capsule synthesis or LOS si...

Topics

• Animals
• Animals, Newborn
• Bacteremia
• Bacterial Capsules
• Injections, Intraperitoneal
• Lipopolysaccharides
• Meningitis, Meningococcal
• Mutation
• N-Acetylneuraminic Acid
• Neisseria meningitidis
• Phagocytosis