Yazdankhah Siamak P, Kesanopoulos Konstantinos, Tzanakaki Georgina, Kremastinou Jenny, Caugant Dominique A
Department of Airborne Infections, Division of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Nydalen, Oslo, Norway.
J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Sep;43(9):4865-7. doi: 10.1128/JCM.43.9.4865-4867.2005.
Thirty-one meningococcal isolates from carriers and disease cases belonging to the sequence type (ST) 162 complex, isolated in Greece in 1999 and 2000, were studied by the use of variable-number tandem repeat analysis. Our study demonstrated that the isolates belonging to the ST-162 clonal complex were a heterogeneous group. Based on this heterogeneity, it is unlikely that the disease-associated isolates represent an outbreak.
对1999年和2000年在希腊分离出的31株来自携带者和病例的属于序列型(ST)162复合体的脑膜炎球菌分离株进行了可变数目串联重复分析研究。我们的研究表明,属于ST-162克隆复合体的分离株是一个异质群体。基于这种异质性,与疾病相关的分离株不太可能代表一次暴发。