ArticleEpidemiology and infection2017
Survival of Neisseria meningitidis outside of the host: environmental effects and differences among strains.
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- Endogenous endophthalmitis secondary to neisseria meningitidis: a case report.BMC ophthalmology · 2026Article
- Proteins associated with environmental survival of the pathogenEpidemiology and infection · 2025Article
- Environmental desiccation stress induces viable but non culturable state in Neisseria meningitidis.Archives of microbiology · 2025Article
- Distributed genotyping and clustering of Neisseria strains reveal continual emergence of epidemic meningococcus over a century.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Effect of respiratory tract co-colonizers on initial attachment of Neisseria meningitidis.Archives of microbiology · 2023Article
- Socioepidemiological macro-determinants associated with the cumulative incidence of bacterial meningitis: A focus on the African Meningitis Belt.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Elucidating the Structural and Minimal Protective Epitope of the Serogroup X Meningococcal Capsular Polysaccharide.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021Article
- Two Cases of Meningococcal Disease in One Family Separated by an Extended Period - Colorado, 2015-2016.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2018Article
- Increase of Neisseria meningitidis W:cc11 invasive disease in Chile has no correlation with carriage in adolescents.PloS one · 2018Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Neisseria meningitidis is a gram-negative bacterium that lives as a commensal in the human nasopharynx. Meningococci are generally non-invasive, but can invade the nasopharyngeal epithelia and enter the bloodstream causing life-threatening illnesses. It is generally thought that meningococci do not survive for long outside the host, and that transmission requires relatively close contact between hosts. There are some reports, however, that meningococci can survive drying on surfaces, including glass, plastic and cloth. Our examination of N. meningitidis strains dried on glass showed differences in survival of isolates belonging to serogroups B, C and W135, including persistence of Cuban, New Zealand, and Norwegian epidemic strains up to 8 days, depending on temperature and humidity. Survival of a New Zealand epidemic strain isolate NZ98/254 under ambient conditions in the laboratory was greatest in winter suggesting that environmental factors impacted survival. For most isolates, including NZ98/254, survival under controlled conditions at 30 °C was greater at 22% than 30% relative humidity. There were also some differences in survival between carriage and invasive strains. The results suggest that N. meningitidis could be transmitted through contact with surfaces outside the host, potentially including contact through shared drinking vessels.
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