Evaluation of porB PCR-Amplicon Restriction Endonuclease Analysis as a Method To Determine porB Variable-Region Sequences in Nonserotypeable Meningococci
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- 1 April 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 42 (4) , 1731-1733
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.42.4.1731-1733.2004
Abstract
porB PCR-amplicon restriction endonuclease analysis is a rapid, simple method developed to assess porB variation in nonserotypeable meningococci isolated during New Zealand's epidemic of meningococcal disease. Most nonserotypeable meningococci isolated between 1990 and 1999 inclusively either were type 4 (40.5%) or contained the porB variable region 1 (VR1)-19, VR2-D, VR3-7, and VR4-14a sequences (45.1%).Keywords
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