Metabolic shift in the emergence of hyperinvasive pandemic meningococcal lineages

Hyperinvasive lineages of Neisseria meningitidis, which persist despite extensive horizontal genetic exchange, are a major cause of meningitis and septicaemia worldwide. Over the past 50 years one such lineage of meningococci, known as serogroup A, clonal complex 5 (A:cc5), has caused three successi...

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Main Authors: Watkins, E, Maiden, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2017