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Meningococcal vaccination in adolescents and adults induces bactericidal activity against hyperinvasive complement-resistant meningococcal isolates

2022-05-23 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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BackgroundComplement-mediated killing is critical in the defense against meningococci. During a recent outbreak of invasive meningococcal serogroup W disease (IMD-W) in the Netherlands, the predominant isolates belonged to clonal complex (cc) 11, which may suggest a role for cc11-assocated traits in complement resistance. We investigated complement resistance of invasive and carriage meningococcal isolates of different serogroups and lineages. In addition, we investigated whether vaccine-induced...

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