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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Main Authors: Araceli Lamelas, Simon R. Harris, Katharina Röltgen, Jean-Pierre Dangy, Julia Hauser, Robert A. Kingsley, Thomas R. Connor, Ali Sie, Abraham Hodgson, Gordon Dougan, Julian Parkhill, Stephen D. Bentley, Gerd Pluschke
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Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2014
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/3e94727d62fe4db8acc3c97b700d8c86
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