Meningococcal Meningitis

HUMAN IMMUNITY TO THE MENINGOCOCCUS

1969 • 1,290 citations

HUMAN IMMUNITY TO THE MENINGOCOCCUS

1969 • 1,009 citations

Preparation, characterization, and immunogenicity of Haemophilus influenzae type b polysaccharide-protein conjugates.

1980 • 626 citations

Escherichia coliK1 Capsular Polysaccharide Associated with Neonatal Meningitis

1974 • 480 citations

Immunologic Response of Man to Group B Meningococcal Polysaccharide Vaccines

1972 • 454 citations

HUMAN IMMUNITY TO THE MENINGOCOCCUS

1969 • 409 citations

HUMAN IMMUNITY TO THE MENINGOCOCCUS

1969 • 401 citations

Prevention of Meningococcal Disease by Group C Polysaccharide Vaccine

1970 • 377 citations

Clinical Efficacy of Meningococcus Group A Capsular Polysaccharide Vaccine in Children Three Months to Five Years of Age

1977 • 345 citations

Structural determination of the sialic acid polysaccharide antigens of Neisseria meningitidis serogroups B and C with carbon 13 nuclear magnetic resonance.

1975 • 335 citations

RELEASE OF ENDOTOXIN IN THE FORM OF CELL WALL BLEBS DURING IN VITRO GROWTH OF NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS

1973 • 297 citations

Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis : Extracellular Enzyme Cleaves Human Immunoglobulin A

1975 • 269 citations

Heterogeneity of Lipopolysaccharides. Analysis of Polysaccharide Chain Lengths by Sodium Dodecylsulfate‐Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis

1975 • 265 citations

The serological classification of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. I. Isolation of the outer membrane complex responsible for serotypic specificity.

1976 • 237 citations

Clinical evaluation of group A and group C meningococcal polysaccharide vaccines in infants.

1975 • 235 citations

Polysaccharide Vaccines of Group A Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus influenzae Type b: A Field Trial in Finland

1977 • 234 citations

Lipid on capsular polysaccharides of gram-negative bacteria.

1981 • 224 citations

Complex of Meningococcal Group B Polysaccharide and Type 2 Outer Membrane Protein Immunogenic in Man

1979 • 205 citations

HUMAN IMMUNITY TO THE MENINGOCOCCUS

1969 • 200 citations

The effect of variation in molecular weight on the antigenicity of dextran in man

1958 • 195 citations

Neisseria pili proteins: amino-terminal amino acid sequences and identification of an unusual amino acid

1978 • 194 citations

Studies on gonococcus infection. XIV. Cell wall protein differences among color/opacity colony variants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

1978 • 191 citations

Immunobiology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

1979 • 177 citations

Immunization of suckling pigs against enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli-induced diarrheal disease by vaccinating dams with purified 987 or K99 pili: protection correlates with pilus homology of vaccine and challenge

1978 • 176 citations

Five structural classes of major outer membrane proteins in Neisseria meningitidis

1981 • 174 citations

Studies on the Meningococcal Polysaccharides

1971 • 171 citations

Serotypes of Neisseria meningitidis isolated from patients in Norway during the first six months of 1978

1979 • 167 citations

Isolation and Characterization of the Outer Membrane of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

1974 • 165 citations

Quantitative Determination of the Human Immune Response to Immunization with Meningococcal Vaccines

1972 • 162 citations

Determination of the Structure and Conformation of Bacterial Polysaccharides by Carbon 13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

1974 • 162 citations

Vaccines for the prevention of encapsulated bacterial diseases: current status, problems and prospects for the future

1978 • 161 citations

IgA Protease Production as a Characteristic Distinguishing Pathogenic from Harmless Neisseriaceae

1978 • 154 citations

Outer-membrane protein and lipopolysaccharide serotyping of Neisseria meningitidis by inhibition of a solid-phase radioimmunoassay

1977 • 153 citations

Structural determination of the polysaccharide antigens of Neisseria meningitidis serogroups Y, W-135, and BO

1976 • 145 citations

Studies on the Meningococcal Polysaccharides

1971 • 141 citations

Characterization of Serologically Dominant Outer Membrane Proteins ofNeisseria gonorrhoeae

1980 • 132 citations

In Vivo and In Vitro Resistance to Sulfadiazine in Strains of Neisseria Meningitidis

1963 • 130 citations

Persistence of Antibody Following Immunization of Children With Groups A and C Meningococcal Polysaccharide Vaccines

1977 • 130 citations

EFFECT OF GROUP-A MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINE IN ARMY RECRUITS IN FINLAND

1975 • 124 citations

Structural elucidation of the 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid containing meningococcal 29-e capsular polysaccharide antigen using carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance

1978 • 119 citations

Enteric Bacteria Cross-Reactive with Neisseria meningitidis Groups A and C and Diplococcus pneumoniae Types I and III

1972 • 116 citations

Genetic and biochemical analysis of gonococcal IgA1 protease: cloning in Escherichia coli and construction of mutants of gonococci that fail to produce the activity.

1982 • 114 citations

Immunoepidemiology of Meningococcal Disease in Military Recruits. II. Blocking of Serum Bactericidal Activity by Circulating IgA Early in the Course of Invasive Disease

1977 • 110 citations

Measurement of antibodies to meningococcal group B polysaccharide: low avidity binding and equilibrium binding constants.

1982 • 110 citations

Type-specific antigens of group A Neisseria meningitidis: lipopolysaccharide and heat-modifiable outer membrane proteins

1980 • 98 citations

Adherence of Isolates of Neisseria meningitidis from Patients and Carriers to Human Buccal Epithelial Cells

1980 • 98 citations

Host Defense Against Neisseria meningitidis Requires a Complement-Dependent Bactericidal Activity

1979 • 94 citations

Antibody Response to Capsular Polysaccharides of Groups A and C Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus influenzae Type b during Bacteremic Disease

1981 • 93 citations

CHEMO-IMMUNOLOGICAL STUDIES ON CONJUGATED CARBOHYDRATE-PROTEINS

1931 • 88 citations

New Classification of Neisseria meningitidis by Means of Bactericidal Reactions

1970 • 86 citations

The R-type lipopolysaccharides of Neisseria meningitidis

1980 • 81 citations

IgA proteases of two distinct specificities are released by Neisseria meningitidis.

1980 • 78 citations

Nucleic Acids as Antigens

1967 • 70 citations

Preparation and characterization of detoxified lipopolysaccharide-protein conjugates.

1981 • 67 citations

DISEASE PREVENTION BY MENINGOCOCCAL SEROGROUP C POLYSACCHARIDE VACCINE IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN: RESULTS AFTER ELEVEN MONTHS IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL

1974 • 65 citations

Loss of antibody activity in human immunoglobulin A exposed extracellular immunoglobulin A proteases of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Streptococcus sanguis

1977 • 64 citations

Nucleotide sequence homology between the immunoglobulin A1 protease genes of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Neisseria meningitidis, and Haemophilus influenzae

1984 • 63 citations

Identification of an Epidemic Strain of Group C Neisseria meningitidis by Bactericidal Serotyping

1971 • 57 citations

Comparative Immunogenicity of Vaccines Prepared from Capsular Polysaccharides of Group C Neisseria meningitidis O.Acetyl.Positive and O.Acetyl.Negative Variants and Escherichia coli K92 in Adult Volunteers

1979 • 54 citations

Antibody-dependent cell-mediated antibacterial activity of human mononuclear cells. I. K lymphocytes and monocytes are effective against meningococi in cooperation with human imune sera.

1979 • 48 citations

Adherence of Neisseria meningitidis to human epithelial cells

1981 • 48 citations

PREPARATION OF THE TYPE-SPECIFIC POLYSACCHARIDE OF THE TYPE I MENINGOCOCCUS AND A STUDY OF ITS EFFECTIVENESS AS AN ANTIGEN IN HUMAN BEINGS

1944 • 45 citations

The Chemical Composition and Serological Reactions of Lipopolysaccharides from Serogroups A, B, X, and Y Neisseria meningitidis

1973 • 43 citations

STUDIES ON MENINGOCOCCUS INFECTION

1935 • 33 citations

Hydrolases from Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The study of gonocosin, an aminopeptidase-P, a proline iminopeptidase, and an asparaginase.

1980 • 31 citations

Three new serogroups of Neisseria meningitidis

1981 • 31 citations

Homogeneity of protein serotype antigens in Neisseria meningitidis group A

1977 • 29 citations

Meningococcal Carrier Studies

1944 • 28 citations

Ultrastructure of Pili and Annular Structures on the Cell Wall Surface of Neisseria meningitidis

1974 • 25 citations

Group C Neisseria meningitidis variant polysaccharide vaccines in children

1981 • 19 citations

A method for a radioimmunoassay using microtiter plates allowing simultaneous determination of antibodies to two non cross-reactive antigens

1978 • 13 citations

Clinical and Serological Evaluation of a Meningococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine Groups A, C, and Y

1978 • 11 citations