The majority of invasive meningococcal disease in developed countries is caused by Neisseria meningitidis with a serogroup B capsule. Despite the availability of vaccines for other serogroups since the 1960s no broadly effective vaccine has been developed for preventi... Lees meer.

Neisseria meningitidis genome contains 2158 protein coding regions. Nearly half of the ORFs belongs to different functional classes. Sequence analysis of N. meningitidis hypothetical proteins using InterProScan and MPsrch resulted in the identification of 9 putative pe... Lees meer.