title: Emergence of 2 Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C clones in a French county.
abstract: Between 2003 and 2007, we recovered 21 serogroup C Neisseria meningitidis isolates in the Haute-Vienne county of France. Multilocus sequence typing showed that 20 isolates belonged to the ST-11 clonal complex (8 to clone ET-15 and 12 to clone ET-37) and 1 to the ST-8 clonal complex.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie-Hygiène, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Limoges, 87042 Limoges Cedex, France. Fabien.garnier@unilim.fr
authors.forename: Fabien
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Garnier
authors.forename: Mélanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Courouble
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Denis
authors.forename: Marie-Cécile
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Ploy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016667:Bacterial Capsules; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008585:Meningitis, Meningococcal / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D008589:Meningococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D038542:Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup C / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012703:Serotyping