Sango Virus (SANV) is a member of the Simbu serogroup within order Bunyavirales, family Peribunyaviridae, genus Orthobunyavirus. In end October, 2019, two SANV virus were identified and isolated from sera sampled symptomatic cows, which manifested fever, milk reduction diarrhea.

In 2012, there were 208 laboratory-confirmed cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) analysed by the National Neisseria Network, and 222 cases notified to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, thus laboratory data were available for 93.7% of cases of IMD in Australia in 2012. Isolates of Neisseria meningitidis from 116 invasive cases of meningococcal disease were available...

BACKGROUND To understand epidemiologic patterns of meningococcal disease in Asia, we performed a retrospective molecular analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens collected in prospective surveillance among children aged < 5 years of age in China, South Korea, and Vietnam. METHODS A total of 295 isolates and 2,302 CSFs were tested by a meningococcal species- and serogroup-specific polym...

is a major cause of bacterial meningitis and a Neisseria meningitidis considerable health problem in the 25 countries of the ‘African Meningitis Belt’ that extends from Senegal in West Africa to Ethiopia in the East. Approximately 80% of cases of meningococcal meningitis in Africa have been caused by strains belonging to capsular serogroup A. After the introduction of a serogroup A conjugate po...

Meningococcal disease is an uncommon infection associated with high case fatality rates, especially in some low resource countries. The burden of meningococcal the Asia Pacific region relatively although likely to be underreported. Carriage rates causative bacteria, Neisseria meningitidis are also lower than many other countries, those Asian ethnicity having a carriage prevalence ethnicities. T...

Meningococcal disease has been regarded as a very rare infection in Korea. Until now, there have been no reports on the serological or genetic characterization of Neisseria meningitidis isolates in Korea. This study was the first report of the serogroup, PorA VR subtype, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), multilocus sequence typing (MLST), and antimicrobial susceptibility of N. meningitid...

Biochemical and physiological traits of a collection of strains of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal isolated from India, Bangladesh, and Thailand showed that these strains formed a phenotypically homogeneous group with identical characteristics that were essentially similar to those of the O1 serogroup. Resistance to 150 micrograms of the vibriostatic agent O/129 (2,4-diamino-6,7-diisopropylpteridin...

The United Kingdom introduced meningococcal serogroup C conjugate (MCC) vaccines in 1999, resulting in substantial declines in serogroup C disease and carriage. Here, we measured the age-specific prevalence of serum bactericidal antibodies (SBA) to Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C and immunoglobulin G (IgG) concentrations to serogroups A, C, W-135, and Y in 2,673 serum samples collected in En...

The internally transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences of several members within each of 17 soybean bradyrhizobial serogroups were determined to establish whether the regions within all members of each serogroup were identical. The rationale was to provide a sequence-based alternative to serology. The objective also was to link the extensive older literature on soybean symbiosis based on serology wi...

Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of bacterial meningitis and a considerable health problem in the 25 countries of the 'African Meningitis Belt' that extends from Senegal in West Africa to Ethiopia in the East. Approximately 80% of cases of meningococcal meningitis in Africa have been caused by strains belonging to capsular serogroup A. After the introduction of a serogroup A conjugate po...