Genomic surveillance of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B invasive strains: Diversity of vaccine antigen types, Brazil, 2016-2018.
Ana Paula Silva de LemosClaudio Tavares SacchiCláudia Regina GonçalvesCarlos Henrique CamargoAna Lúcia AndradePublished in: PloS one (2020)
During the study period, changes in the clonal structure of circulating strains were observed, without a predominance of a single hyperinvasive lineage, indicating that an epidemiologic shift has occurred that led to a diversity of vaccine antigen types in recent years in Brazil.