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Life Sciences
Recent findings in life sciences described by researchers from University of Oxford
February 24th, 2009
According to recent research from Oxford, the United Kingdom, "Neisseria meningitis is a human commensal bacterium that occasionally causes life-threatening disease. As with a number of other bacterial pathogens, meningococcal populations comprise distinct lineages, which persist over many decades and during global spread in the face of high rates of recombination." "In addition, the propensity to cause invasive disease is associated with particular ''hyperinvasive'' lineages that coexist with less invasive lineages despite the fact that disease does not contribute to host-to-host transmission. Here, by combining a modeling approach with molecular epidemiological data...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-02-24)
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