Description: Microbiology and Laboratory Diagnosis.- Isolation, Culture, and Identification of Meningococci from Clinical Specimens.- PCR Diagnosis.- Detection of Meningococcal Antigen by Latex Agglutination.- Meningococcal Serology.- Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing.- Molecular Approach for the Study of Penicillin Resistance In Neisseria meningitidis.- Overview: Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Population Biology.- Serological Characterization.- Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis.- Nucleotide Sequencing of Antigen Genes of Neisseria meningitidis.- Multi-Locus Sequence Typing.- Capsular Operons.- Molecular Analysis of the Meningococcal LPS Expression.- Genome Sequencing and Annotation.- Representational Difference Analysis.- Managing Outbreaks.- Global Trends in Meningococcal Disease.- Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Population Biology.- Surveillance of Meningococcal Disease in Europe.- Global Surveillance for Meningococcal Disease.- Epidemiology of Meningococcal Disease in North America.- Computational Methods for Meningococcal Population Studies.- Clinical Studies.- Clinical Scoring Systems in Meningococcal Disease.- Quantitative Detection of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides in Clinical Specimens.- Isolation and Analysis of Radiolabeled Meningococcal Endotoxin.- Cytokine Measurement In Vivo and In Vitro.- Cytokine Bioassays.- Molecular Analysis of Gene-Polymorphisms Affecting the Host Response to Infection.- Coagulation Studies.- Complement Pathways and Meningococcal Disease.- Evaluation of New Treatments for Meningococcal Disease.- Studies on the Effect of Neisserial Porins on Apoptosis of Mammalian Cells.- Molecular Recognition Mechanisms of Meningococci.- Experimental Nasopharyngeal Colonization by Neisseria meningitidis using Explant Organ Culture.- Invasion of the Central NervousSystem by Neisseria meningitidis.- Interactions of Meningococci with Endothelium.- A Promoter Probe Plasmid Based on Green Fluorescent Protein.- Signature-Tagged Mutagenesis.

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