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List of works by Leonard W. Mayer

A computational genomics pipeline for prokaryotic sequencing projects

scientific article published on 2 June 2010

A five-year field assessment of rapid diagnostic tests for meningococcal meningitis in Niger by using the combination of conventional and real-time PCR assays as a gold standard.

scientific article published on 2 December 2013

A multi-country evaluation of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B factor H-binding proteins and implications for vaccine coverage in different age groups

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Absence of high molecular weight proteins 1 and/or 2 is associated with decreased adherence among non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae clinical isolates

scientific article published on 29 August 2013

Accuracy of real-time PCR, Gram stain and culture for Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus influenzae meningitis diagnosis

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Changes in Neisseria meningitidis disease epidemiology in the United States, 1998-2007: implications for prevention of meningococcal disease

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Changes in the Population Structure of Invasive Neisseria meningitidis in the United States After Quadrivalent Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine Licensure

scientific article published on 2 January 2015

Clinical validation of multiplex real-time PCR assays for detection of bacterial meningitis pathogens

scientific article published on 14 December 2011

Comparative analytical evaluation of the respiratory TaqMan Array Card with real-time PCR and commercial multi-pathogen assays

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Comparison of Phenotypic and Genotypic Approaches to Capsule Typing of Neisseria meningitidis by Use of Invasive and Carriage Isolate Collections ⬇️

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Current epidemiology and trends in invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease--United States, 1989-2008.

scientific article published in December 2011

Detection of bacterial pathogens in Mongolia meningitis surveillance with a new real-time PCR assay to detect Haemophilus influenzae

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Development of Real-Time PCR Methods for the Detection of Bacterial Meningitis Pathogens without DNA Extraction

scientific article published in February 2016

Development of a PCR algorithm to detect and characterize Neisseria meningitidis carriage isolates in the African meningitis belt

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Development of a real-time fluorescence PCR assay for rapid detection of the diphtheria toxin gene

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Diversity of factor H-binding protein in Neisseria meningitidis carriage isolates.

scientific article published on 24 June 2011

Draft genome sequences of Bordetella holmesii strains from blood (F627) and nasopharynx (H558).

scientific article published on 21 March 2013

Effectively introducing a new meningococcal A conjugate vaccine in Africa: the Burkina Faso experience

scientific article published on May 2012

Emergence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Neisseria meningitidis in North America

scientific article published in February 2009

Epidemiologic investigation and targeted vaccination initiative in response to an outbreak of meningococcal disease among illicit drug users in Brooklyn, New York

scientific article published in April 2009

Epidemiology of infant meningococcal disease in the United States, 2006-2012

scientific article published on 12 January 2015

Evaluation and improvement of real-time PCR assays targeting lytA, ply, and psaA genes for detection of pneumococcal DNA.

scientific article published on 30 May 2007

Evaluation of New Biomarker Genes for Differentiating Haemophilus influenzae from Haemophilus haemolyticus ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2012

Expansion of syndromic vaccine preventable disease surveillance to include bacterial meningitis and Japanese encephalitis: evaluation of adapting polio and measles laboratory networks in Bangladesh, China and India, 2007-2008.

scientific article published on 15 January 2015

Genome sequences for five strains of the emerging pathogen Haemophilus haemolyticus.

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Genomic Basis of a Polyagglutinating Isolate of Neisseria meningitidis ⬇️

scientific article published on August 17, 2012

Genomic Epidemiology of Hypervirulent Serogroup W, ST-11 Neisseria meningitidis

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Genomic Investigation Reveals Highly Conserved, Mosaic, Recombination Events Associated with Capsular Switching among Invasive Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup W Sequence Type (ST)-11 Strains. ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 June 2016

Genotypic comparison of invasive Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y isolates from the United States, South Africa, and Israel, isolated from 1999 through 2002. ⬇️

scientific article published on July 2009

Haemophilus haemolyticus Isolates Causing Clinical Disease ⬇️

scientific article published on May 9, 2012

Haemophilus influenzae type b carriage among young children in metropolitan Atlanta in the context of vaccine shortage and booster dose deferral

scientific article published on 19 October 2011

Haemophilus influenzae type b disease and vaccine booster dose deferral, United States, 1998-2009.

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High level of sequence diversity in the 16S rRNA genes of Haemophilus influenzae isolates is useful for molecular subtyping

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High prevalence of Neisseria meningitidis hypervirulent lineages and emergence of W135:P1.5,2:ST-11 clone in Southern Brazil

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Identification of anthrax toxin genes in a Bacillus cereus associated with an illness resembling inhalation anthrax

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Meningococcal carriage among Georgia and Maryland high school students

scientific article published on 11 December 2014

Meningococcus genome informatics platform: a system for analyzing multilocus sequence typing data

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Molecular characterization of invasive meningococcal isolates from countries in the African meningitis belt before introduction of a serogroup A conjugate vaccine ⬇️

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Molecular characterization of serogroup C Neisseria meningitidis isolated in China

scientific article published in September 2007

Molecular epidemiology of Neisseria meningitidis isolates from an outbreak of meningococcal disease among men who have sex with men, Chicago, Illinois, 2003

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Molecular subtyping of Bacillus anthracis and the 2001 bioterrorism-associated anthrax outbreak, United States

scientific article published on October 2002

Neisseria Base: a comparative genomics database for Neisseria meningitidis

scientific article published on 18 September 2011

Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W, Burkina Faso, 2012.

scientific article published on March 2014

Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W-135 carriage among US travelers to the 2001 Hajj

scientific article published on 29 November 2004

Outbreak of W135 meningococcal disease in 2000: not emergence of a new W135 strain but clonal expansion within the electophoretic type-37 complex

scientific article published on 17 May 2002

PCR-based national bacterial meningitis surveillance in Turkey: years 2006 to 2009.

scientific article published on October 2014

Paracoccus yeeii sp. nov. (formerly CDC group EO-2), a novel bacterial species associated with human infection

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Penicillin Use in Meningococcal Disease Management: Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Sites, 2009.

scientific article published on 13 July 2016

Population structure and capsular switching of invasive Neisseria meningitidis isolates in the pre-meningococcal conjugate vaccine era--United States, 2000-2005 ⬇️

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Population-Based Surveillance of Neisseria meningitidis Antimicrobial Resistance in the United States

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Population-based surveillance for bacterial meningitis in China, September 2006-December 2009.

scientific article published on January 2014

Preclinical evidence for the potential of a bivalent fHBP vaccine to prevent Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup C Disease ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Predicting the Susceptibility of Meningococcal Serogroup B Isolates to Bactericidal Antibodies Elicited by Bivalent rLP2086, a Novel Prophylactic Vaccine

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Predictors of immunity after a major serogroup W-135 meningococcal disease epidemic, Burkina Faso, 2002.

scientific article published on 30 January 2006

Prevalence and genetic diversity of candidate vaccine antigens among invasive Neisseria meningitidis isolates in the United States

scientific article published on 13 May 2011

Prolonged University Outbreak of Meningococcal Disease Associated With a Serogroup B Strain Rarely Seen in the United States ⬇️

scientific article published on April 17, 2013

Public Health Impact After the Introduction of PsA-TT: The First 4 Years

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Sequence diversity of Neisseria meningitidis 16S rRNA genes and use of 16S rRNA gene sequencing as a molecular subtyping tool

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Sequence diversity of the factor H binding protein vaccine candidate in epidemiologically relevant strains of serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis

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Sequencing of 16S rRNA gene: a rapid tool for identification of Bacillus anthracis

scientific article published on October 2002

Serogroup A meningococcal conjugate vaccination in Burkina Faso: analysis of national surveillance data ⬇️

scientific article published on July 18, 2012

Serogroup W-135 meningococcal disease during the Hajj, 2000

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The Strengthening of Laboratory Systems in the Meningitis Belt to Improve Meningitis Surveillance, 2008-2018: A Partners' Perspective

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Use of real-time PCR to resolve slide agglutination discrepancies in serogroup identification of Neisseria meningitidis

scientific article published on January 2004

Using Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms To Discriminate Disease-Associated from Carried Genomes of Neisseria meningitidis ⬇️

scientific article published on May 27, 2011

Whole genome sequencing to investigate the emergence of clonal complex 23 Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y disease in the United States

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

sodC-based real-time PCR for detection of Neisseria meningitidis

scientific article

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