Филогенетическое разнообразие и геногеография популяций neisseria meningitidis

Abstract

The objects of the research are genes using in N. meningitidis multilocus sequence typing. European and African sequences were taken from Neisseria Sequence Typing Home Page, isolates form Belarus were sequenced in The Republican Research and Practical Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology. The aim of the research is to find out connection between meningococcal phylogeny and its geographical dissemination. In course of research Belarusian isolates were characterized and dynamics of dissemination of meningococcal infection was found out.