Background: Neisseria meningitidis causes the life-threatening diseases meningococcal meningitis and meningococcal septicemia. Neisseria gonorrhoeae is closely related to the meningococcus, but is the cause of the very different infection, gonorrhea. A number of genes have been implicated in the virulence of these related yet distinct pathogens, but the genes that define and differentiate the species and their behaviours have not been established. Further, a related species, Neisseria lactamica is not associated with either type of infection in normally healthy people, and lives as a harmless commensal. We have determined which of the genes so far identified in the genome sequences of the pathogens are also present in this non-pathogenic re...
Commensal bacteria comprise a large part of the microbial world, playing important roles in human de...
Of the ten human-restricted Neisseria species two, Neisseria meningitidis, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae...
Commensal bacteria comprise a large part of the microbial world, playing important roles in human de...
BACKGROUND: Neisseria meningitidis causes the life-threatening diseases meningococcal meningitis and...
BACKGROUND: The genus Neisseria contains two important yet very different pathogens, N. meningitidis...
Abstract Background The genus Neisseria contains two important yet very different pathogens, N. meni...
N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis, the only two human pathogens of Neisseria, are closely related s...
Background Pathogenicity islands (PAIs) or genomic islands (GEIs) are considered to be the result of...
Joseph B, Schwarz RF, Linke B, et al. Virulence Evolution of the Human Pathogen Neisseria meningitid...
Background: There are four widely used experimental strains of N. gonorrhoeae, one of which has been...
Schoen C, Blom J, Claus H, et al. Whole-genome comparison of disease and carriage strains provides i...
Background Pathogenicity islands (PAIs) or genomic islands (GEIs) are considered to be the result of...
The release of the complete genome sequences of Neisseria meningitidis MC58 and Z2491 along with acc...
A response to Snyder LA, Saunders NJ: The majority of genes in the pathogenic Neisseria species are ...
Abstract A response to Snyder LA, Saunders NJ: The majority of genes in the pathogenic Neisseria spe...
Commensal bacteria comprise a large part of the microbial world, playing important roles in human de...
Of the ten human-restricted Neisseria species two, Neisseria meningitidis, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae...
Commensal bacteria comprise a large part of the microbial world, playing important roles in human de...
BACKGROUND: Neisseria meningitidis causes the life-threatening diseases meningococcal meningitis and...
BACKGROUND: The genus Neisseria contains two important yet very different pathogens, N. meningitidis...
Abstract Background The genus Neisseria contains two important yet very different pathogens, N. meni...
N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis, the only two human pathogens of Neisseria, are closely related s...
Background Pathogenicity islands (PAIs) or genomic islands (GEIs) are considered to be the result of...
Joseph B, Schwarz RF, Linke B, et al. Virulence Evolution of the Human Pathogen Neisseria meningitid...
Background: There are four widely used experimental strains of N. gonorrhoeae, one of which has been...
Schoen C, Blom J, Claus H, et al. Whole-genome comparison of disease and carriage strains provides i...
Background Pathogenicity islands (PAIs) or genomic islands (GEIs) are considered to be the result of...
The release of the complete genome sequences of Neisseria meningitidis MC58 and Z2491 along with acc...
A response to Snyder LA, Saunders NJ: The majority of genes in the pathogenic Neisseria species are ...
Abstract A response to Snyder LA, Saunders NJ: The majority of genes in the pathogenic Neisseria spe...
Commensal bacteria comprise a large part of the microbial world, playing important roles in human de...
Of the ten human-restricted Neisseria species two, Neisseria meningitidis, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae...
Commensal bacteria comprise a large part of the microbial world, playing important roles in human de...