Abstract
Herein we present a case of Neisseria meningitidis-related sepsis and meningitis in a 60- year-old woman. The N. meningitidis strain was identified as serogroup B and sequence type (ST)-4893 by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). The patient in this case had visited France prior to development of symptoms. No meningococcal isolate belonging to ST-4893 has been identified in Japan previously, whereas an ST-4893 strain from France has been reported in the MLST database. These results strongly suggest that this case is likely to have been imported from France.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 61-62 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Japanese journal of infectious diseases |
Volume | 64 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Microbiology (medical)
- Infectious Diseases