Tsang Raymond S W, Kiefer Lori, Law Dennis K S, Stoltz Jan, Shahin Rita, Brown Shirley, Jamieson Frances
National Microbiology Laboratory, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
J Clin Microbiol. 2003 Sep;41(9):4411-4. doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.9.4411-4414.2003.
We describe an outbreak, in a community of men who have sex with men, of serogroup C meningococcal disease caused by a genetic variant of the serotype 2a ET-15 Neisseria meningitidis characterized by a point mutation in the gene coding for the serotype 2a antigen. A microbiological characterization of the outbreak strain is presented in this report.
我们描述了一起在男男性行为者社区中发生的C群脑膜炎球菌病疫情,该病由2a血清型ET-15脑膜炎奈瑟菌的一个基因变体引起,其特征是编码2a血清型抗原的基因发生点突变。本报告介绍了疫情菌株的微生物学特征。