Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2020)

Two Cases of Newly Characterized Neisseria Species, Brazil

  • Mustapha M. Mustapha,
  • Ana Paula S. Lemos,
  • Marissa P. Griffith,
  • Daniel R. Evans,
  • Ramon Marx,
  • Elizabeth S.F. Coltro,
  • Christian A. Siebra,
  • Loeci Timm,
  • Hamilton Ribeiro,
  • Alessandro Monteiro,
  • A. William Pasculle,
  • Jane W. Marsh,
  • Daria Van Tyne,
  • Lee H. Harrison,
  • Claudio T. Sacchi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2602.190191
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 2
pp. 366 – 369

Abstract

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We describe 2 human cases of infection with a new Neisseria species (putatively N. brasiliensis), 1 of which involved bacteremia. Genomic analyses found that both isolates were distinct strains of the same species, were closely related to N. iguanae, and contained a capsule synthesis operon similar to N. meningitidis.

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