Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B
PRODUCTION OF OUTER MEMBRANE VESICLES (OMV) IN BATCH CULTIVATION OF NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS SEROGROUP B Silvia Santos1 , Júlia Baruque-Ramos2 ; Marta Massako Tanizaki1; Ivo Lebrun1 ; Rocilda Perazzini Furtado Schenkman1
... Meningococcal disease is an important cause of death and morbidity throughout the world. Nearly 330,000 cases and 35,000 deaths occur yearly. Neisseria meningitidis, serogroup B strain ...
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Fatal meningococcal meningitis in a HIV-infected patient caused by serogroup C Neisseria meningitidis belonging to the non-hypervirulent clonal complex ST-60 (cc60)
... bacterium Neisseria meningitidis (meningo- coccus), a Gram-negative diplococcus harbor- ing a polysaccharide capsule (PSC) which is the main responsible for the severity of the disease when it is released ...
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sodC-based real-time PCR for detection of neisseria meningitidis
... The [Cu, Zn]-cofactored superoxide dismutase gene, sodC, is located 1.23 Mb from the capsule locus in the 2.27-Mb Nm serogroup B strain MC58 genome [16] and encodes the virulence factor Cu, Zn Sod. Cu, Zn ...
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Assessment of a two-step nucleic acid amplification assay for detection of Neisseria meningitidis followed by capsular genogrouping
... Traditional non-culture laboratory methods, such as the latex agglutination test has been used to diagnosis and serogroup determination of N. meningitidis. It is use- ful when patient has received ...
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Neisseria meningitidis presenting as acute abdomen and recurrent reactive pericarditis
... immune associated complications including arthritis, vas- culitis, pleuritis, or pericarditis. 15,16,20 In line with these observations, our patient was a young adult, presenting in poor clinical condition, with highly ...
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Virulence evolution of the human pathogen Neisseria meningitidis by recombination in the core and accessory genome.
... groups. Serogroup B and C strains as well as the two cnl strains are separated from the other four serogroups based on gene content, and the cycles within the serogroup B/C subgraph indicate a ...
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Typing and susceptibility to penicillin of Neisseria meningitidis isolated from patients in Cuba (1993-1999)
... The susceptibility to penicillin of 111 menin- gococcal strains was assessed by the agar-dilution procedure. Thirty-five (31.5%) isolates showed reduced sensitivity to penicillin and no resistant strains ( ≥ 2mg/l) were ...
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COMPARISON OF METHODS TO IDENTIFY Neisseria meningitidis IN ASYMPTOMATIC CARRIERS
... Neisseria meningitidis is a cause of several life-threatening diseases and can be a normal commensal in the upper respiratory tract of healthy ...were serogroup C; 3 (2.2%) serogroup ...
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Avaliação de diferentes vias de imunização com novo adjuvante para Neisseria meningitidis...
... Meningococcal Serogroup B Vaccine) é baseada na tecnologia de vacinologia reversa associada ao uso de ...meningococo B para selecionar as proteínas que são provavelmente mais amplamente eficazes como ...
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Short-term and long-term antibody response by mice after immunization against Neisseria meningitidis B or diphtheria toxoid
... Serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis (MenB) is a major cause of invasive disease in early childhood ...memory B cells during the period studied (6 months post-triple ...
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Molecular characterization of invasive Neisseria meningitidis strains isolated in Chile during 2010-2011.
... [25]. Serogroup B prevailed over the rest, with a total of 67 isolates mainly found in the ST-32 complex and ST-41/44, with 27 and 29 serogroup B isolates respectively, which is also ...
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Neisseria meningitidis: A Neglected Cause of Infectious Haemorrhagic Fever in the Amazon Rainforest
... N. meningitidis, 6% (7/115) for ...N. meningitidis carriage rate in the affected family was 20% (6/30), whilst in the closest neighbouring family was 17% (1/6) and in the villagers was 3% (2/79); 67% (n = ...
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Genetic relationships among serogroup B: serotype 4 Neisseria meningitidis strains
... phenotypes B:4 (n = 1), B:4,1 (n = 1), B:4,7 (n = 70), B:4,10 (n = 20), and B:4,21 (n = 1) for further study ...The B:4,7 group of strains includes the phenotypes ...N. ...
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Genotypic and phenotypic modifications of Neisseria meningitidis after an accidental human passage.
... A scientist in our laboratory was accidentally infected while working with Z5463, a Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A strain. She developed severe symptoms (fever, meningism, purpuric lesions) that ...
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N-Terminal Amino Acid Sequences of the Major Outer Membrane Proteins from a Neisseria meningitidis Group B Strain Isolated in Brazil
... of Neisseria meningitidis, the ethiologic agent of meningococ- cal ...meningococci serogroup B, the capsular polysaccharide (CP) has shown poor immunoge- nicity (Wyle et ...
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View of Recomendações Sobre a Vacina Contra Neisseria meningitidis
... MenB-FHbp serogroup B menin- gococcal vaccine - Advisory Committee on Immunization Prac- tices, ...endemic Neisseria meningi- tidis capsular group W sequence type 11 complex associated with severe ...
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Recognition of the epidemiological significance of Neisseria meningitidis capsular serogroup W135 in the Rio de Janeiro region, Brazil
... A, B, and C (WHO ...N. meningitidis serogroups B (67%) and, to lesser extent, C (30%) pre- dominated in cases diagnosed in the vast territory of ...by serogroup W 135 , ...
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Production of Monoclonal Antibody to Subtype 9 of Neisseria meningitidis and the Distribution of this Subtype in Brazil
... (NT) serogroup B strain from Brazilian patients and were found to react with the subtype antigen of prototype reference strains for subtype 9 (M982), as well as with those of homologous ...of ...
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Clinical evaluation of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for rapid detection of Neisseria meningitidis in cerebrospinal fluid.
... We developed a meningococcal LAMP assay (Nm LAMP) that targets the ctrA gene. The primer specificity was validated using 16 strains of N. meningitidis (serogroup A, B, C, D, 29-E, W-135, X, Y, and Z) ...
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Sequenciação do genoma completo como ferramenta da epidemiologia molecular: caracterização de estirpes de Neisseria meningitidis do serogrupo W isoladas em Portugal
... por Neisseria meningitidis do serogrupo W teve origem no Hajj (peregrinação anual a Meca), em 2000, e foi causada por uma estirpe híper virulenta do complexo clonal ST11 (cc11), do subtipo ...
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