"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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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Neisseria meningitidis" by people in Profiles.
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Another Vaccine. Another Meningococcal Vaccine. Another Adolescent Vaccine. Another Article About a Vaccine. J Adolesc Health. 2018 09; 63(3):263-264.
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Confronting the Epidemiology, Burden, Treatment, and Prevention of Meningococcal Disease. J Adolesc Health. 2016 08; 59(2 Suppl):S1-2.
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DNase H Activity of Neisseria meningitidis Cas9. Mol Cell. 2015 Oct 15; 60(2):242-55.
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Broadly protective protein-based pneumococcal vaccine composed of pneumolysin toxoid-CbpA peptide recombinant fusion protein. J Infect Dis. 2014 Apr 01; 209(7):1116-25.
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Meningococcal vaccine: a position statement of the society for adolescent health and medicine. J Adolesc Health. 2012 Feb; 50(2):211-2.
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A comparison of meningococcal carriage by pregnancy status. J Negat Results Biomed. 2010 Aug 11; 9:6.
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Immunization update: pertussis, meningoccocus, and human papillomavirus. Adolesc Med Clin. 2006 Oct; 17(3):547-63; abstract ix-x.
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Analysis of haptoglobin and hemoglobin-haptoglobin interactions with the Neisseria meningitidis TonB-dependent receptor HpuAB by flow cytometry. Infect Immun. 2004 May; 72(5):2494-506.
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Mechanisms of iron acquisition by the human pathogens Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Front Biosci. 2003 Sep 01; 8:d1186-218.
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Interactions of haemoglobin with the Neisseria meningitidis receptor HpuAB: the role of TonB and an intact proton motive force. Mol Microbiol. 2002 Jan; 43(2):335-54.