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Volume 24, Number 4—April 2018
Research

Genomic Surveillance of 4CMenB Vaccine Antigenic Variants among Disease-Causing Neisseria meningitidis Isolates, United Kingdom, 2010–2016

Charlene M.C. RodriguesComments to Author , Jay Lucidarme, Ray Borrow, Andrew Smith, J. Claire Cameron, E. Richard Moxon, and Martin C.J. Maiden
Author affiliations: University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (C.M.C. Rodrigues, E.R. Moxon, M.C.J. Maiden); Public Health England, Manchester, UK (J. Lucidarme, R. Borrow); Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (A. Smith); University of Glasgow, Glasgow (A. Smith); Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow (J.C. Cameron)

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Table 2

Number of unique BASTs and measures of diversity among invasive meningococcal disease isolates, United Kingdom, 2010–2016*

Epidemiologic year No. unique BASTs No. isolates No. BASTs/isolate Simpson index of diversity
2010−11 229 550 0.416 0.976
2011–12 187 439 0.426 0.977
2012–13 226 491 0.460 0.976
2013–14 181 436 0.415 0.960
2014–15 199 572 0.348 0.924
2015–16
 155
 585
 0.265
 0.902
Total 803 3,073 0.261 0.963

*BASTs, Bexsero Antigen Sequence Types.

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