1. Two Cases of Newly Characterized Neisseria Species, Brazil
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Mustapha M. Mustapha, Ana Paula S. Lemos, Marissa P. Griffith, Daniel R. Evans, Ramon Marx, Elizabeth S.F. Coltro, Christian A. Siebra, Loeci Timm, Hamilton Ribeiro, Alessandro Monteiro, A. William Pasculle, Jane W. Marsh, Daria Van Tyne, Lee H. Harrison, and Claudio T. Sacchi
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Neisseria brasiliensis ,Neisseria meningititidis ,meningococcal capsule ,capsular switching ,Neisseria species ,whole genome sequencing ,Medicine ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
We describe 2 human cases of infection with a new Neisseria species (putatively N. brasiliensis), 1 of which involved bacteremia. Genomic analyses found that both isolates were distinct strains of the same species, were closely related to N. iguanae, and contained a capsule synthesis operon similar to N. meningitidis.
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- 2020
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