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Clonal expansion of new penicillin-resistant clade of neisseria meningitidis serogroup w clonal complex 11, Australia

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Mowlaboccus, S.
Jolley, K.
Bray, J.
Pang, S.
Lee, Y.
Bew, J.
Speers, D.
Keil, A.
Coombs, Geoffrey
Kahler, C.
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2017
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Mowlaboccus, S. and Jolley, K. and Bray, J. and Pang, S. and Lee, Y. and Bew, J. and Speers, D. et al. 2017. Clonal expansion of new penicillin-resistant clade of neisseria meningitidis serogroup w clonal complex 11, Australia. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 23 (8): pp. 1364-1367.
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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In Western Australia, Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W clonal complex 11 became the predominant cause of invasive meningococcal disease in 2016. We used core-genome analysis to show emergence of a penicillin-resistant clade that had the penA_253 allele. This new penicillin-resistant clade might affect treatment regimens for this disease.

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