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Monoclonal antibody to serotype 17 of Neisseria meningitidis and their prevalen...
Sacchi, Claudio Tavares; Lemos, Ana Paula Silva de; Gorla, Maria Cecília Outeiro; Frasch, Carl E.Neisseria meningitidis are gram-negative diplococci responsible for cases of meningococcal disease all over the world. The epidemic potential of N. meningitidis serogroup B and C is clearly a function of their serotype antigens more than of their capsular polysaccharides. Until recently, hiperimmune sera were used to detect typing antigens on the bacteria. The advent of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) offered the ...
Estrutura genética de cepas epidêmicas de Neisseria meningitidis sorogrupo C do...
Sacchi, Claudio Tavares; Tondella, Maria Lúcia Cecconi; Gorla, Maria Cecília Outeiro; Lemos, Ana Paula Silva de; Melles, Carmo Elias A.In the present study we report the results of an analysis, based on serotyping, multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MEE), and ribotyping of N. meningitidis serogroup C strains isolated from patients with meningococcal disease (MD) in Rio Grande do Sul (RS) and Santa Catarina (SC) States, Brazil, as the Center of Epidemiology Control of Ministry of Health detected an increasing of MD cases due to this serogroup i...
Bacterial agents isolated from cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Acquired Im...
Landgraf, Ilka Maria; Palaci, Moisés; Vieira, Maria de Fátima Paiva; Ueki, Sueli Yoko Mizuka; Martins, Maria Conceição; Sato, Daisy NakamuraCerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from 2083 patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and neurological complications were bacteriologically examined during a period of 7 years (1984-1990). The percentage of patients who had at least one bacterial agent cultured from the CSF was 6.2%. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was the most frequently isolated agent (4.3%), followed by Mycobacterium avium complex o...