BACKGROUND Patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria(PNH)have a clonal population of blood cells deficient in glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored(GPIanchored)proteins,most of the time resulting from a mutati...
Introduction:Neisseria is a large genus of bacteria that colonize mucosal surfaces. Of the 11 species that colonize humans, only two are pathogens, N. meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae. Both...
Background: Bacterial meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges caused mainly by three bacterial species Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae that are transmitted by nasophar...
supported by the grants from the National Key Program for Infectious Disease of China[No.2018ZX10101002-001-014];the National Natural Scientific Foundation[No.81602903];the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China;the Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen[No.SZSM201803081].
Objective To compare the pathogenicity of isolates of sequence type 7(ST-7)Neisseria meningitidis(N.meningitidis)belonging to four different serogroups(A,B,C,and X).Methods Four ST-7 N.meningitidis isolates serogroupe...
This paper has been motivated by the following biological question: how influential me desert uerosols in the transmission of meningitidis serogroup A (MenA)? A mathematical model for the dynamical transmission of Men...
supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Population Health Research titled "Immunisation in under Studied and Special Risk Populations: Closing the Gap in Knowledgethrough a multidisciplinary Approach"
AIM To estimate the pharyngeal carriage rate of Neisseria meningitidis(N. meningitidis), Streptococcus pneumoniae(S. pneumoniae) and Staphylococcus aureus(S. aureus) among Australian Hajj pilgrims.METHODS In 2014, sur...
Supported by Partly the UK Medical Research Council,No.G0701607
AIMTo compare different antibiotics for eradicating the carriage of Neisseria meningitidis (N. meningitidis ), and to investigate heterogeneity and evidence inconsistency.METHODSFrom a search of PubMed and publishe...
Neisseria meningitidis(N.meningitidis) is an exclusively human pathogen that has been identified in 10%-35% of the adult population and in 5.9% of the child population.Despite the high prevalence of carriers of N.meni...
Neisseria meningitidis is a gram negative diplococcal bacterium. Worldwide, N. meningitidis is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis and sepsis, with five serogroups (A, B, C, Y, and W-135) responsible for the maj...