Whole-Genome Sequencing for Characterization of Capsule Locus and Prediction of Serogroup of Invasive Meningococcal Isolates

Henju Marjuki, Nadav Topaz, Lorraine D. Rodriguez‐Rivera, Edward Ramos, Caelin Cubeñas-Potts, Alexander Chen, Adam C. Retchless, Gregory Doho, Xin Wang

Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 2018 · 33 citations · 38 references

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Invasive meningococcal disease is mainly caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A, B, C, X, W, and Y. The serogroup is typically determined by slide agglutination serogrouping (SASG) and real-time PCR (RT-PCR).

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