Bacteremia and meningitis caused by a novel clone of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B

Pediatr Int. 2018 Dec;60(12):1093-1094. doi: 10.1111/ped.13718. Epub 2018 Dec 11.

Authors

Jun Shinozuka¹, Hideyuki Takahashi², Mori Masahiro³, Hitoshi Awaguni¹, Shinsaku Imashuku^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatrics, Uji-Tokushukai Medical Center, Uji, Japan.
² Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Uji-Tokushukai Medical Center, Uji, Japan.

PMID: 30548358
DOI: 10.1111/ped.13718

No abstract available

Keywords: Neisseria meningitidis; infant; meningococcal meningitis; sequence type; serogroup B.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Bacteremia / diagnosis
Bacteremia / microbiology*
Bacterial Typing Techniques
Female
Humans
Infant
Meningitis, Meningococcal / diagnosis
Meningitis, Meningococcal / microbiology*
Multilocus Sequence Typing
Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup B / classification*
Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup B / genetics
Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup B / isolation & purification