Recent publications using MLST in Neisseria research
The following is a list of recent publications that use or mention MLST in research on neisserial species. The list is generated automatically and includes references published in the last two years.
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List generated: 2008-10-12.
Weidlich L, Baethgen LF, Mayer LW, Moraes C, Klein CC, Nunes LS, da S Rios S, Kmetzsch CI, Rossetti ML, Zaha A. High prevalence of Neisseria meningitidis hypervirulent lineages and emergence of W135:P1.5,2:ST-11 clone in Southern Brazil. J Infect 2008, [Epub ahead of print]: |
Simoes MJ, Cunha M, Almeida F, Furtado C, Brum L. Molecular surveillance of Neisseria meningitidis capsular switching in Portugal, 2002-2006. Epidemiol Infect 2008, [Epub ahead of print]:1-5 |
du Plessis M, von Gottberg A, Cohen C, de Gouveia L, Klugman KP. Neisseria meningitidis intermediately resistant to penicillin causing invasive disease in South Africa, 2001-2005. J Clin Microbiol 2008, [Epub ahead of print]: |
Heckenberg SG, de Gans J, Brouwer MC, Weisfelt M, Piet JR, Spanjaard L, van der Ende A, van de Beek D. Clinical Features, Outcome, and Meningococcal Genotype in 258 Adults With Meningococcal Meningitis: A Prospective Cohort Study. Medicine (Baltimore) 2008, 87:185-192 |
Russell JE, Urwin R, Gray SJ, Fox AJ, Feavers IM, Maiden MC. Molecular epidemiology of meningococcal disease in England and Wales 1975-1995, before the introduction of serogroup C conjugate vaccines. Microbiology 2008, 154:1170-7 |
Zhang X, Shao Z, Zhu Y, Xu L, Xu X, Mayer LW, Xu J, Jin Q. Genetic characteristics of serogroup A meningococci circulating in China, 1956-2005. Clin Microbiol Infect 2008, 14:555-61 |
Mironov KO, Platonov AE, Koroleva IS, Zakroeva IM, Zaikin VL, Solov'eva LIa, Braslavskaia SI, Shipulin GA. [Genetic subgroups of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A isolated from patients with disseminated forms of meningococcal infection in Moscow, 1969-2006] Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol 2008, [Epub ahead of print]:7-12 |
Zarantonelli ML, Lancellotti M, Deghmane AE, Giorgini D, Hong E, Ruckly C, Alonso JM, Taha MK. Hyperinvasive genotypes of Neisseria meningitidis in France. Clin Microbiol Infect 2008, 14:467-72 |
Baethgen LF, Weidlich L, Moraes C, Klein C, Nunes LS, Cafrune PI, Lemos AP, Rios SS, Abreu MF, Kmetzsch C, Sperb AF, Riley LW, Rossetti ML, Zaha A. Epidemiology of meningococcal disease in southern Brazil from 1995 to 2003, and molecular characterization of Neisseria meningitidis using multilocus sequence typing. Trop Med Int Health 2008, 13:31-40 |
Yang L, Shao Z, Zhang X, Xu L, Peng J, Xu X, Liang X, Qi Y, Jin Q. Genotypic characterization of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B strains circulating in China. J Infect 2008, 56:211-8 |
Gottberg A, Plessis M, Cohen C, Prentice E, Schrag S, Gouveia L, Coulson G, Jong G, Klugman K. Emergence of endemic serogroup W135 meningococcal disease associated with a high mortality rate in South Africa. Clin Infect Dis 2008, 46:377-86 |
Tsang RS, Law DK, Tyler SD, Stephens GS, Bigham M, Zollinger WD. Potential capsule switching from serogroup Y to B: The characterization of three such Neisseria meningitidis isolates causing invasive meningococcal disease in Canada. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol 2005, 16:171-4 |
Sakamoto M, Onodera S, Takahashi H, Watanabe H. [A case of acute bronchitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis associated with HIV infection] Kansenshogaku Zasshi 2007, 81:731-5 |
Peng J, Yang L, Yang F, Yang J, Yan Y, Nie H, Zhang X, Xiong Z, Jiang Y, Cheng F, Xu X, Chen S, Sun L, Li W, Shen Y, Shao Z, Liang X, Xu J, Jin Q. Characterization of ST-4821 complex, a unique Neisseria meningitidis clone. Genomics 2008, 91:78-87 |
Yazdankhah SP, Lindstedt BA. Variable number tandem repeat typing of bacteria. Methods Mol Biol 2007, 396:395-405 |
Bennett JS, Jolley KA, Sparling PF, Saunders NJ, Hart CA, Feavers IM, Maiden MC. Species status of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: evolutionary and epidemiological inferences from multilocus sequence typing. BMC Biol 2007, 5:35 |
Zhang X, Shao Z, Yang E, Xu L, Xu X, Li M, Ren J, Zhu Y, Yang F, Liang X, Mayer LW, Xu J, Jin Q. Molecular characterization of serogroup C Neisseria meningitidis isolated in China. J Med Microbiol 2007, 56:1224-9 |
Bisharat N, Cohen DI, Maiden MC, Crook DW, Peto T, Harding RM. The evolution of genetic structure in the marine pathogen, Vibrio vulnificus. Infect Genet Evol 2007, 7:685-93 |
Yang J, Zhang X, Xu X, Xu L, Li M, Yang L, Zhu Y, Shao Z, Liang X, Xu J, Wang Y, Jin Q. Genotypic analysis of serogroups other than A, B or C of Neisseria meningitidis in China. Scand J Infect Dis 2007, 39:819-21 |
Claus H, Elias J, Meinhardt C, Frosch M, Vogel U. Deletion of the meningococcal fetA gene used for antigen sequence typing of invasive and commensal isolates from Germany: frequencies and mechanisms. J Clin Microbiol 2007, 45:2960-4 |
Honisch C, Chen Y, Mortimer C, Arnold C, Schmidt O, Boom D, Cantor CR, Shah HN, Gharbia SE. Automated comparative sequence analysis by base-specific cleavage and mass spectrometry for nucleic acid-based microbial typing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007, 104:10649-54 |
Tsang RS, Henderson AM, Cameron ML, Tyler SD, Tyson S, Law DK, Stoltz J, Zollinger WD. Genetic and antigenic analysis of invasive serogroup Y Neisseria meningitidis isolates collected from 1999 to 2003 in Canada. J Clin Microbiol 2007, 45:1753-8 |
Peng J, Zhang X, Yang E, Wang J, Yang J, Shao Z, Jin Q. Characterization of serogroup C meningococci isolated from 14 provinces of China during 1966-2005 using comparative genomic hybridization. Sci China C Life Sci 2007, 50:1-6 |
Krizova P, Kalmusova J, Musilek M. [Molecular epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in the Czech Republic] Epidemiol Mikrobiol Imunol 2006, 55:140-50 |
Findlow H, Vogel U, Mueller JE, Curry A, Njanpop-Lafourcade BM, Claus H, Gray SJ, Yaro S, Traore Y, Sangare L, Nicolas P, Gessner BD, Borrow R. Three cases of invasive meningococcal disease caused by a capsule null locus strain circulating among healthy carriers in Burkina Faso. J Infect Dis 2007, 195:1071-7 |
Lemos AP, Yara TY, Gorla MC, Paiva MV, Souza AL, Goncalves MI, Almeida SC, Valle GR, Sacchi CT. Clonal distribution of invasive Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C strains circulating from 1976 to 2005 in greater Sao Paulo, Brazil. J Clin Microbiol 2007, 45:1266-73 |
Davidsen T, Amundsen EK, Rodland EA, Tonjum T. DNA repair profiles of disease-associated isolates of Neisseria meningitidis. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol 2007, 49:243-51 |
Turner KM, Feil EJ. The secret life of the multilocus sequence type. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2007, 29:129-35 |
Brehony C, Jolley KA, Maiden MC. Multilocus sequence typing for global surveillance of meningococcal disease. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2007, 31:15-26 |
Jolley KA, Brehony C, Maiden MC. Molecular typing of meningococci: recommendations for target choice and nomenclature. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2007, 31:89-96 |
Fox AJ, Taha MK, Vogel U. Standardized nonculture techniques recommended for European reference laboratories. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2007, 31:84-8 |