Clonal expansion of new penicillin-resistant clade of neisseria meningitidis serogroup w clonal complex 11, Australia

Mowlaboccus, S., Jolley, K.A., Bray, J.E., Pang, S., Lee, Y.T., Bew, J.D., Speers, D.J., Keil, A.D., Coombs, G.W.ORCID: 0000-0003-1635-6506 and Kahler, C.M. (2017) Clonal expansion of new penicillin-resistant clade of neisseria meningitidis serogroup w clonal complex 11, Australia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 23 (8). pp. 1364-1367.

Abstract

In Western Australia, Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W clonal complex 11 became the predominant cause of invasive meningococcal disease in 2016. We used core-genome analysis to show emergence of a penicillin-resistant clade that had the penA_253 allele. This new penicillin-resistant clade might affect treatment regimens for this disease

Item Type:	Journal Article
Murdoch Affiliation:	School of Veterinary and Life Sciences
Publisher:	National Center for Infectious Diseases
Copyright:	© 2017, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
URI:	http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/37886

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