Impact of Molecular Biology in the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Invasive Meningococcal Disease
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 5891
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular surveillance in neisseria meningitidis, including diagnosis, molecular characterization, population biology, antimicrobial resistance and vaccines
Interests: molecular surveillance in Neisseria meningitidis, including diagnosis, molecular characterization, population biology, antimicrobial resistance and vaccines
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The bacteria Neisseria meningitidis is the aetiological agent associated with Invasive Meningococcal Disease (IMD), a devastating disease that remains a public health concern because of its rapid onset and significant risk of death and long-term disability. Even with proper therapy, the disease has a high mortality rate (5-10%) and a high number of long-term sequelae (10–20% of survivors). In recent years, the greater accessibility of molecular and cellular techniques has allowed an enormous advance in the knowledge of the disease, defining risk factors in the susceptible population, describing genetic mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance, and particularly, developing new vaccines with different antigenic formulations, for which new tools, also based on molecular biology, have been developed. Diagnosis, population biology and animal models are also topics that have ostensibly improved, in parallel with molecular biology. For any of these topics, and for those that may not have been mentioned, this Special Issue is open to contributions, both in the form of reviews and research articles.
Prof. Dr. Julio A Vázquez
Dr. Raquel Abad
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neisseria meningitidis
- invasive meningococcal disease (IMD)
- meningococcus
- meningococcal vaccines
- meningococcal population
- host and meningococci interaction
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