ABSTRACT Introduction: The 2018 Global Meningococcal Initiative (GMI) meeting focused
on evolving invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) epidemiology, surveillance, and …

The PubMLST. org website hosts a collection of open-access, curated databases that
integrate population sequence data with provenance and phenotype information for over …

Background The opportunities for bacterial population genomics that are being realised by
the application of parallel nucleotide sequencing require novel bioinformatics platforms …

Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are human pathogens that cause a
variety of life-threatening systemic and local infections, such as meningitis or gonorrhoea …

Campylobacteriosis remains a major human public health problem world-wide. Genetic
analyses of Campylobacter isolates, and particularly molecular epidemiology, have been …

Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD), caused by Neisseria meningitidis, can have a fatality
rate as high as 10%, even with appropriate treatment. In the UK, penicillin is administered to …

A novel influenza A (H1N1) 2009 variant with mildly reduced oseltamivir and zanamivir
sensitivity has been detected in more than 10% of community specimens in Singapore and …

Quinolone resistance is increasing in Neisseria meningitidis, with its prevalence in China
being high (> 70%), but its origin remains unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate …

Background Tracking the spread of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains with decreased
susceptibility or resistance to cephalosporins is a major priority for global surveillance …

Background Historically, antimicrobial resistance has been rare in US invasive
meningococcal disease cases. Methods Meningococcal isolates (n= 695) were collected …