"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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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 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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Structural and functional features of a developmentally regulated lipopolysaccharide-binding protein. mBio. 2015 Oct 13; 6(5):e01193-15.
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Inhibition of the dapE-Encoded N-Succinyl-L,L-diaminopimelic Acid Desuccinylase from Neisseria meningitidis by L-Captopril. Biochemistry. 2015 Aug 11; 54(31):4834-44.
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Primary meningococcal arthritis requiring surgical drainage. J Clin Rheumatol. 2013 Mar; 19(2):94-7.
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Computational electrophysiology: the molecular dynamics of ion channel permeation and selectivity in atomistic detail. Biophys J. 2011 Aug 17; 101(4):755-6.
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Pneumonia and empyema caused by penicillin-resistant Neisseria meningitidis: a case report and literature review. Pediatrics. 2006 May; 117(5):e1061-6.
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Estimating diversifying selection and functional constraint in the presence of recombination. Genetics. 2006 Mar; 172(3):1411-25.
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The influence of mutation, recombination, population history, and selection on patterns of genetic diversity in Neisseria meningitidis. Mol Biol Evol. 2005 Mar; 22(3):562-9.
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LIAN 3.0: detecting linkage disequilibrium in multilocus data. Linkage Analysis. Bioinformatics. 2000 Sep; 16(9):847-8.
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The contrasting mechanisms of serum resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and group B Neisseria meningitidis. Mol Immunol. 1999 Sep-Oct; 36(13-14):915-28.
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Genetic organization and sequence of the rfb gene cluster of Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:3: similarities to the dTDP-L-rhamnose biosynthesis pathway of Salmonella and to the bacterial polysaccharide transport systems. Mol Microbiol. 1993 Jul; 9(2):309-21.