Related links and databases

Links

• Meningococcal typing (porA, porB, fetA, opa)
• Neisseria.org - A central resource for the Neisseria research community.

Databases

• Czech Neisseria meningitidis carriage population database
  • This database contains full details of isolates described in Jolley et al. (2000) Carried meningococci in the Czech Republic: a diverse recombining population, J Clin Microbiol, 38:4492-98 and Jolley et al. (2004) 'The influence of mutation, recombination, population history, and selection on patterns of genetic diversity in Neisseria meningitidis.' Mol Biol Evol 2005, 22:562-9. The full study is published in Buckee et al. (2008). 'Role of selection in the emergence of lineages and the evolution of virulence in Neisseria meningitidis.' Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, [Epub ahead of print].