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- Hedberg, Sara Thulin, 1980-, et al.
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Genetic characterisation of the emerging invasive Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y in Sweden, 2000 to 2010
- 2011
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Ingår i: Eurosurveillance. - Saint-Maurice, France : European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. - 1025-496X .- 1560-7917. ; 16:23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Neisseria meningitidis serogroups B and C have beenresponsible for the majority of invasive meningococcaldisease in Europe. Recently, an increase of N. meningitidisdisease due to serogroup Y has been notedin Sweden (in 2010, the proportion was 39%, with anincidence of 0.23 per 100,000 population), as well as inother northern European countries. We aimed to investigatethe clonal pattern of the emerging serogroup Yin Sweden during 2000 to 2010. The serogroup Y isolatesidentified during this time (n=85) were characterisedby multilocus sequence typing and sequencing ofthe fetA, fHbp, penA, porA and porB genes. The mostfrequent clone (comprising 28 isolates) with identicalallele combinations of the investigated genes, waspartly responsible for the observed increased numberof N. meningitidis serogroup Y isolates. It was sulfadiazineresistant, with genosubtype P1.5-2,10-1,36-2,sequence type 23, clonal complex 23, porB allele 3-36,fetA allele F4-1, fHbp allele 25 and penA allele 22. Thefirst case with disease due to this clone was identifiedin 2002: there was a further case in 2004, six during2006 to 2007, eight during 2008 to 2009, with a peakof 12 cases in 2010. An unusual increase of invasivedisease in young adults (aged 20–29 years) caused bythis clone was shown, but no increase in mortality ratewas observed.
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- Törös, B., et al.
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Surveillance of invasive Neisseria meningitidis with a serogroup Y update, Sweden 2010 to 2012
- 2014
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Ingår i: Eurosurveillance. - : European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). - 1025-496X .- 1560-7917. ; 19:42, s. 25-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An increase of invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y has been noted in Sweden since 2005, and to a lower extent throughout Europe. The present study describes the epidemiology of invasive N. meningitidis isolates in Sweden in the period between 2010 and 2012, with a focus on serogroup Y. We also aimed to find an optimal molecular typing scheme for both surveillance and outbreak investigations. All invasive N. meningitidis isolates in Sweden during the study period (n=208) were genetically characterised. Serogroup Y predominated with 22/57, 31/61 and 44/90 of all invasive isolates (incidence 0.23, 0.33 and 0.46 per 100,000 population) in 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively. In each of these years, 15/22, 22/31 and 19/44 of serogroup Y isolates were genetically clonal (Y: P1.5-2,10-1,36-2: F4-1: ST-23(cc23), 'porB allele 3-36, fHbp allele 25 and penA allele 22). Our findings further support those of others that currently recommended FetA typing could be replaced by FHbp. Moreover, in line with a previous study that we conducted, the current results indicate that highly variable multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (HV-MLVA) can be used as a first-hand rapid method for small outbreak investigations.
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