Will Genome Analysis Elucidate Evolution, Global Transmission and Virulence of Neisseria Meningitidis Lineages?

EBioMedicine. 2015 Feb 9;2(3):186-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.02.001. eCollection 2015 Mar.

Authors

Daniel Golparian¹, Magnus Unemo¹

Affiliation

¹ WHO Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and other Sexually Transmitted Infections, National Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Microbiology, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden.

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Biological Evolution
Disease Outbreaks
Genome, Bacterial*
Genomics / methods
Humans
Meningococcal Infections / epidemiology
Meningococcal Infections / microbiology*
Meningococcal Infections / prevention & control
Meningococcal Infections / transmission
Meningococcal Vaccines / pharmacology
Neisseria meningitidis / genetics*
Neisseria meningitidis / pathogenicity*

Substances

Meningococcal Vaccines