"Neisseria meningitidis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of gram-negative, aerobic BACTERIA. It is a commensal and pathogen only of humans, and can be carried asymptomatically in the NASOPHARYNX. When found in cerebrospinal fluid it is the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis (MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL). It is also found in venereal discharges and blood. There are at least 13 serogroups based on antigenic differences in the capsular polysaccharides; the ones causing most meningitis infections being A, B, C, Y, and W-135. Each serogroup can be further classified by serotype, serosubtype, and immunotype.
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D009345
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.440.400.425.550.550.641 B03.660.075.525.520.500
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 26 | 8 | 34 |
| 2018 | 20 | 9 | 29 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Neisseria meningitidis" by people in Profiles.
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Invasive Meningococcal Disease, 2011-2020, and Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, England. Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Sep; 27(9):2495-2497.
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3' Tth Endonuclease Cleavage Polymerase Chain Reaction (3TEC-PCR) Technology for Single-Base-Specific Multiplex Pathogen Detection using a Two-Oligonucleotide System. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Jun 04; 22(11).
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COVID-19 containment measures and incidence of invasive bacterial disease. Lancet Digit Health. 2021 06; 3(6):e331-e332.
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Changes in the incidence of invasive disease due to Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Neisseria meningitidis during the COVID-19 pandemic in 26 countries and territories in the Invasive Respiratory Infection Surveillance Initiative: a prospective analysis of surveillance data. Lancet Digit Health. 2021 06; 3(6):e360-e370.
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Meningitis vaccines in children: what have we achieved and where next? Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2019 10; 32(5):510-516.
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Community-acquired Invasive Bacterial Disease in Urban Gambia, 2005-2015: A Hospital-based Surveillance. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 09 05; 69(Suppl 2):S105-S113.
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Risk of antibiotic resistant meningococcal infections in Hajj pilgrims. BMJ. 2019 08 23; 366:l5260.
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Development a multi-epitope driven subunit vaccine for immune response reinforcement against Serogroup B of Neisseria meningitidis using comprehensive immunoinformatics approaches. Infect Genet Evol. 2019 11; 75:103992.
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Invasive meningococcal disease in patients with complement deficiencies: a case series (2008-2017). BMC Infect Dis. 2019 Jun 14; 19(1):522.
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Increase of invasive meningococcal serogroup W disease in Europe, 2013 to 2017. Euro Surveill. 2019 Apr; 24(14).