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Species: | Neisseria meningitidis (serogroup B) |
Species code: | NEIMB |
Type: | Eubacteria |
Taxonomy: | Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Betaproteobacteria; Neisseriales; Neisseria (TaxID: 491)
[NEWT /
NCBI] |
Strain(s): | MC58 / Serogroup B
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Genome: | circular, 2.27 Mb; no ECE |
Reference(s): | MEDLINE=20175755
[NCBI, ExPASy, Israel, Japan]; PubMed=10710307; Tettelin H., Saunders N.J., Heidelberg J., Jeffries A.C., Nelson K.E., Eisen J.A., Ketchum K.A., Hood D.W., Peden J.F., Dodson R.J., Nelson W.C., Gwinn M.L., DeBoy R., Peterson J.D., Hickey E.K., Haft D.H., Salzberg S.L., White O., Fleischmann R.D., Dougherty B.A., Mason T., Ciecko A., Parksey D.S., Blair E., Cittone H., Clark E.B., Cotton M.D., Utterback T.R., Khouri H., Qin H., Vamathevan J., Gill J., Scarlato V., Masignani V., Pizza M., Grandi G., Sun L., Smith H.O., Fraser C.M., Moxon E.R., Rappuoli R., Venter J.C.; "Complete genome sequence of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B strain MC58."; Science 287:1809-1815(2000). |
Genome official sequence WWW site(s): | http://www.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR2/GenomePage3.spl?database=gnm |
Other WWW site(s): | GIB (DDBJ) EBI GeneQuiz |
Description: | Gram-negative meningococcal bacterium. Causes life-threatening invasive
bacterial infections especially in young infants. Opportunistic
pathogen that colonizes the nasopharynges and oropharynges of
asymptomatic carriers, they occasionally gain access to the blood and
to the cerebrospinal fluid to cause meningitis and septicemia.
The pattern of serogroup B disease is typically hyperendemic or sporadic. Strains of this serogroup are a particular problem because they are a major cause of invasive disease in Europe and United States and there is currently no effective vaccine. |
Properties: | Number of membranes : 2 Presence of a flagella : No Number of inteins : 0 |
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