Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria and Vaccine Preventable Bacterial Diseases.
Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol. 2005 May;16(3):171-4. doi: 10.1155/2005/216369.
Three group B Neisseria meningitidis isolates, recovered from meningococcal disease cases in Canada and typed as B:2c:P1.5, were characterized. Multilocus sequence typing showed that all three isolates were related because of an identical sequence type (ST) 573. Isolates typed as 2c:P1.5 are common in serogroup Y meningococci but rare in isolates from serogroups B or C. Although no serogroup Y isolates have been typed as ST-573, eight isolates showed five to six housekeeping gene alleles that were identical to that of ST-573. This suggested that the B:2c:P1.5 isolates may have originated from serogroup Y organisms, possibly by capsule switching.
从加拿大脑膜炎球菌病病例中分离出的 3 株 B 群脑膜炎奈瑟菌分离株,经鉴定为 B:2c:P1.5。多位点序列分型显示,由于相同的序列型(ST)573,这 3 株分离株具有相关性。B:2c:P1.5 型分离株在 Y 群脑膜炎奈瑟菌中很常见,但在 B 群或 C 群分离株中很少见。尽管没有 Y 群分离株被鉴定为 ST-573,但 8 株分离株显示出 5 到 6 个看家基因等位基因与 ST-573 完全相同。这表明 B:2c:P1.5 分离株可能起源于 Y 群生物体,可能通过荚膜转换。