Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EpIg Men (The Role of Antibodies (Ig) and the Respiratory Epithelium in the Prevention of Invasive Meningococcal Infections in Different Age Groups)

Meningococci causing invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) have distinct genetic signatures, referred to as clonal complexes or sequence types, compared to non-invasive meningococci found in carriage studies. A well-known clonal complex associated with IMD is cc11. In this...