Emergence of a New Epidemic <named-content content-type="genus-species">Neisseria meningitidis</named-content> Serogroup A Clone in the African Meningitis Belt: High-Resolution Picture of Genomic Changes That Mediate Immune Evasion
ABSTRACT In the African “meningitis belt,” outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis occur in cycles, representing a model for the role of host-pathogen interactions in epidemic processes. The periodicity of the epidemics is not well understood, nor is it currently possible to predict them. In our longi...
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American Society for Microbiology
2014
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