Molecular Epidemiology of Serogroup A Meningitis in Moscow, 1969 to 1997

Molecular Epidemiology of Serogroup A Meningitis in Moscow, 1969 to 1997

Molecular analysis of 103 serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis strains isolated in Moscow from 1969 to 1997 showed that four independent clonal groupings were responsible for successive waves of meningococcal disease. An epidemic from 1969 to the mid-1970s was caused by genocloud 2 of subgroup III, po...

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Main Authors: Mark Achtman, Arie van der Ende, Peixuan Zhu, Irina S. Koroleva, Barica Kusecek, Giovanna Morelli, Ilse G.A. Schuurman, Norbert Brieske, Kerstin Zurth, Natalya N. Kostyukova, Alexander E. Platonov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2001-06-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
epidemic waves
Neisseria meningitidis
clonal grouping
genetic diversity
fine typing
multilocus sequence typing
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/3/01-7309_article

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