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: 2010-03-11.
Harrison LH, Shutt KA, Schmink SE, Marsh JW, Harcourt BH, Wang X, Whitney AM, Stephens DS, Cohn AA, Messonnier NE, Mayer LW. Population Structure and Capsular Switching of Invasive Neisseria meningitidis Isolates in the Pre-Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine Era-United States, 2000-2005. J Infect Dis 2010, [Epub ahead of print]: |
Climent Y, Urwin R, Yero D, Martinez I, Martin A, Sotolongo F, Maiden MC, Pajon R. The genetic structure of Neisseria meningitidis populations in Cuba before and after the introduction of a serogroup BC vaccine. Infect Genet Evol 2010, [Epub ahead of print]: |
Lambertsen L, Brendstrup M, Friis H, Christensen JJ. Molecular characterization of invasive penicillin non-susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae from Denmark, 2001 to 2005. Scand J Infect Dis 2010, [Epub ahead of print]: |
Tazi L, Perez-Losada M, Gu W, Yang Y, Xue L, Crandall KA, Viscidi RP. Population dynamics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Shanghai, China: a comparative study. BMC Infect Dis 2010, 10:13 |
Lemos AP, Harrison LH, Lenser M, Sacchi CT. Phenotypic and molecular characterization of invasive serogroup W135 Neisseria meningitidis strains from 1990 to 2005 in Brazil. J Infect 2010, 60:209-217 |
Climent Y, Yero D, Martinez I, Martin A, Jolley KA, Sotolongo F, Maiden MC, Urwin R, Pajon R. Clonal Distribution of Disease-Associated and Healthy Carrier Isolates of Neisseria meningitidis between 1983 and 2005 in Cuba. J Clin Microbiol 2010, 48:802-10 |
Vicente D, Esnal O, Lopez de Goicoechea MJ, Cisterna R, Perez-Trallero E. Influence of Two Vaccination Campaigns on Genetic Diversity of Invasive Neisseria meningitidis Isolates in Northern Spain (1997-2008). PLoS One 2009, 4:e8501 |
Doyle TJ, Mejia-Echeverry A, Fiorella P, Leguen F, Livengood J, Kay R, Hopkins R. Cluster of serogroup w135 meningococci, southeastern Florida, 2008-2009. Emerg Infect Dis 2010, 16:113-5 |
Ohnishi M, Watanabe Y, Ono E, Takahashi C, Oya H, Kuroki T, Shimuta K, Okazaki N, Nakayama S, Watanabe H. Spread of a Chromosomal Cefixime-Resistant penA Gene among Different Neisseria gonorrhoeae Lineages. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2010, 54:1060-7 |
Kilic A, Jolley KA, Besirbellioglu B, Kocak N, Bedir O, Eyigun CP, Basustaoglu AC. [Genotypic characteristics of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W-135 strains isolated as the agent of fatal meningitis in a military hospital] Mikrobiyol Bul 2009, 43:515-7 |
Lucidarme J, Comanducci M, Findlow J, Gray SJ, Kaczmarski EB, Guiver M, Kugelberg E, Vallely PJ, Oster P, Pizza M, Bambini S, Muzzi A, Tang CM, Borrow R. Characterization of fHbp, nhba (gna2132), nadA, porA, sequence type (ST), and genomic presence of IS1301 in group B meningococcal ST269 clonal complex isolates from England and Wales. J Clin Microbiol 2009, 47:3577-85 |
Stefanelli P, Fazio C, Sofia T, Neri A, Mastrantonio P. Group C meningococci in Italy in the era of conjugated menC vaccination. BMC Infect Dis 2009, 9:135 |
Didelot X, Urwin R, Maiden MC, Falush D. Genealogical typing of Neisseria meningitidis. Microbiology 2009, 155:3176-86 |
Mironov KO, Platonov AE, Koroleva IS, Tagachenkova TA, Zakroeva IM, Zaikin VL, Solov'eva LIa, Braslavskaia SI, Shipulin GA. [Monitoring for Neisseria meningitidis species using sequencing of variable fragments of surface proteins FetA and PorA genes] Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol 2010, [Epub ahead of print]:23-7 |
Abad R, Agudelo CI, Brandileone MC, Chanto G, Gabastou JM, Hormazabal JC, O Gorla MC, Maldonado A, Moreno J, Muros-Le Rouzic E, Lersch R, Regueira M, Salcedo C, Sorhouet C, Vazquez JA. Molecular characterization of invasive serogroup Y Neisseria meningitidis strains isolated in the Latin America region. J Infect 2009, 59:104-14 |
Whitney AM, Coulson GB, von Gottberg A, Block C, Keller N, Mayer LW, Messonnier NE, Klugman KP. Genotypic comparison of invasive Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y isolates from the United States, South Africa, and Israel, isolated from 1999 through 2002. J Clin Microbiol 2009, 47:2787-93 |
Guan DW, Deng XL, Liu MZ, Ke BX, Zhang WL, Liang H, Liang J, Yang XF. [Molecular characters of epidemic cerebrospinal W135 Neisseria meningitidis strain firstly isolated in Guangdong province.] Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi 2009, 43:14-18 |
Murphy E, Andrew L, Lee KL, Dilts DA, Nunez L, Fink PS, Ambrose K, Borrow R, Findlow J, Taha MK, Deghmane AE, Kriz P, Musilek M, Kalmusova J, Caugant DA, Alvestad T, Mayer LW, Sacchi CT, Wang X, Martin D, von Gottberg A, du Plessis M, Klugman KP, Anderson AS, Jansen KU, Zlotnick GW, Hoiseth SK. Sequence Diversity of the Factor H Binding Protein Vaccine Candidate in Epidemiologically Relevant Strains of Serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis. J Infect Dis 2009, 200:379-389 |
Ibarz Pavon AB, Maiden MC. Multilocus sequence typing. Methods Mol Biol 2009, 551:129-40 |
Katz LS, Bolen CR, Harcourt BH, Schmink S, Wang X, Kislyuk A, Taylor RT, Mayer LW, Jordan IK. Meningococcus genome informatics platform: a system for analyzing multilocus sequence typing data. Nucleic Acids Res 2009, 37:W606-11 |
Francisco AP, Bugalho M, Ramirez M, Carrico JA. Global Optimal eBURST analysis of Multilocus typing data using a graphic matroid approach. BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:152 |
Bambini S, Muzzi A, Olcen P, Rappuoli R, Pizza M, Comanducci M. Distribution and genetic variability of three vaccine components in a panel of strains representative of the diversity of serogroup B meningococcus. Vaccine 2009, 27:2794-803 |
Sloan AM, Henderson AM, Tsang RS. Characterization of serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis from invasive meningococcal disease cases in Canada between 1979 and 2006: Epidemiological links to returning travellers. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol 2008, 19:227-32 |
Hedberg ST, Fredlund H, Nicolas P, Caugant DA, Olcen P, Unemo M. Antibiotic susceptibility and characteristics of Neisseria meningitidis isolates from the African meningitis belt, 2000 to 2006: phenotypic and genotypic perspectives. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2009, 53:1561-6 |
Howitz M, Lambertsen L, Molbak K, Christensen JJ. National case-control study on risk of death and Neisseria meningitidis sequence types in Denmark, 2000-2007. APMIS 2008, 116:1107-15 |
Fazio C, Neri A, Starnino S, Sofia T, Mastrantonio P, Stefanelli P. Characterization of invasive serogroup Y meningococci in Italy: prevalence of ST-23 Complex/Cluster A3. New Microbiol 2008, 31:467-72 |
Jacobsson S, Olcen P, Lofdahl M, Fredlund H, Molling P. Characteristics of Neisseria meningitidis isolates causing fatal disease. Scand J Infect Dis 2008, 40:734-44 |
Bae SM, Kang YH. Serological and genetic characterization of meningococcal isolates in Korea. Jpn J Infect Dis 2008, 61:434-7 |
Deloger M, El Karoui M, Petit MA. A genomic distance based on MUM indicates discontinuity between most bacterial species and genera. J Bacteriol 2009, 191:91-9 |
Weidlich L, Baethgen LF, Mayer LW, Moraes C, Klein CC, Nunes LS, Rios Sda, 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, 57:324-31 |
Simoes MJ, Cunha M, Almeida F, Furtado C, Brum L. Molecular surveillance of Neisseria meningitidis capsular switching in Portugal, 2002-2006. Epidemiol Infect 2009, 137:161-5 |
du Plessis M, von Gottberg A, Cohen C, de Gouveia L, Klugman KP. Neisseria meningitidis intermediately resistant to penicillin and causing invasive disease in South Africa in 2001 to 2005. J Clin Microbiol 2008, 46:3208-14 |
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, 87:185-92 |
Jacobsson S, Olcen P, Lofdahl M, Fredlund H, Molling P. Characteristics of Neisseria meningitidis isolates causing fatal disease. Scand J Infect Dis 2008, [Epub ahead of print]:1-11 |
Callaghan MJ, Buckee C, McCarthy ND, Ibarz Pavon AB, Jolley KA, Faust S, Gray SJ, Kaczmarski EB, Levin M, Kroll JS, Maiden MC, Pollard AJ. Opa protein repertoires of disease-causing and carried meningococci. J Clin Microbiol 2008, 46:3033-41 |
Tsang RS, Tsai CM, Henderson AM, Tyler S, Law DK, Zollinger W, Jamieson F. Immunochemical studies and genetic background of two Neisseria meningitidis isolates expressing unusual capsule polysaccharide antigens with specificities of both serogroup Y and W135. Can J Microbiol 2008, 54:229-34 |
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 |