Expansion of a urethritis-associated Neisseria meningitidis clade in the United States with concurrent acquisition of N. gonorrhoeae alleles - Retchless, Adam C.; Kretz, Cécilia B.; Chang, How-Yi; Bazan, Jose A.; Abrams, A. Jeanine; Norris Turner, Abigail; Jenkins, Laurel T.; Trees, David L.; Tzeng, Yih-Ling; Stephens, David S.; MacNeil, Jessica R.; Wang, Xin (BMC genomics, 2018)
Keywords: Alleles; Causes of; Female; Gene transfer; Genital disease; Genome, Bacterial; Gonorrhea - epidemiology; Gonorrhea - genetics; Gonorrhea - microbiology; Health aspects; Humans; Male; Meningitis; Meningococcal Infections - epidemiology; Meningococcal Infections - genetics; Meningococcal Infections - microbiology; MSM (Men who have sex with men); Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Neisseria gonorrhoeae - genetics; Neisseria gonorrhoeae - isolation & purification; Neisseria meningitidis; Neisseria meningitidis - classification; Neisseria meningitidis - genetics; Neisseria meningitidis - isolation & purification; Neisseria meningitidis - physiology; Phylogeny; Recombination, Genetic; Septicemia; Speciation; United States - epidemiology; Urethritis - complications; Urethritis - genetics; Whole Genome Sequencing - methods; United States; Neisseria meningitidis; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Gene transfer; Speciation; Genital disease