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  • Molecular diagnostic assays for the detection of common bacterial meningitis pathogens: A narrative review 
    Diallo, Kanny; Feteh, Vitalis Fambombi; Ibe, Lilian; Antonio, Martin; Caugant, Dominique Andree Yvette; Plessis, Mignon du; Deghmane, Ala-Eddine; Ronveaux, Olivier; Taha, Muhamed-Kheir; Wang, Xin; Brueggemann, Angela B.; Maiden, Martin C.J.; Harrison, Odile B. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Bacterial meningitis is a major global cause of morbidity and mortality. Rapid identification of the aetiological agent of meningitis is essential for clinical and public health management and disease prevention given the ...
  • Naturally occurring Neisseria gonorrhoeae can have large deletions in housekeeping gene abcZ, making them untypable with multilocus sequence typing 
    Vollan, Hilde Synnøve; Caugant, Dominique Andree Yvette; Eldholm, Vegard; Alfsnes, Kristian; Debech, Nadia; Brynildsrud, Ola Brønstad (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    The abcZ gene is an essential housekeeping gene in all the Neisseria species. It is one of the seven genes used for multilocus sequence typing (MLST) this genus. It encodes the cytosolic component of an ATP-binding cassette ...
  • The effect of recombination on the evolution of a population of Neisseria meningitidis 
    MacAlasdair, Neil; Pesonen, Maiju; Brynildsrud, Ola Brønstad; Eldholm, Vegard; Kristiansen, Paul Arne; Corander, Jukka; Caugant, Dominique Andree Yvette; Bentley, Stephen D. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Neisseria meningitidis (the meningococcus) is a major human pathogen with a history of high invasive disease burden, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Our current understanding of the evolution of meningococcal genomes ...
  • The impact of global lineage dynamics, border restrictions, and emergence of the B.1.1.7 lineage on the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Norway 
    Osnes, Magnus Nygård; Alfsnes, Kristian; Bråte, Jon; Garcia Llorente, Ignacio; Riis, Rasmus Kopperud; Instefjord, Kamilla Heddeland; Elshaug, Hilde; Vollan, Hilde Synnøve; Moen, Line Victoria; Pedersen, Benedikte Nevjen; Caugant, Dominique Andree Yvette; Stene-Johansen, Kathrine; Hungnes, Olav; Bragstad, Karoline; Brynildsrud, Ola Brønstad; Eldholm, Vegard (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Abstract As the COVID-19 pandemic swept through an immunologically naïve human population, academics and public health professionals scrambled to establish methods and platforms for genomic surveillance and data ...