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ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2022

Infection With the US Neisseria meningitidis Urethritis Clade Does Not Lower Future Risk of Urethral Gonorrhea.

Abigail Norris Turner, Alexandria M Carter, Yih-Ling Tzeng, David S Stephens, Morgan A Brown, Brandon M Snyder, Adam C Retchless, Xin Wang, Jose A Bazan

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Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Meningococcal Carriage in 'Men Having Sex With Men' With Pharyngeal Gonorrhoea.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Abigail Norris TurnerDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Alexandria M CarterDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Yih-Ling TzengDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
David S StephensDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Morgan A BrownDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Brandon M SnyderDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Adam C RetchlessMeningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Xin WangMeningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Jose A BazanDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
The Ohio State University · USEmory University · USCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · USNational Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases · US

Funding

Clinical and molecular epidemiology of the sexual transmission of Neisseria meningitidisR01AI127863 · NIAID · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BAZAN, JOSE A., NORRIS TURNER, ABIGAIL · 2017 to 2020
$2.9M
Acquisition of gonococcal denitrification apparatus in the Neisseria meningitidis urethritis cladeR21AI164733 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI EDWARDS, JENNIFER L, TZENG, YIH-LING · 2021 to 2022
$443k
Emergence of ST-11 Neisseria meningitidis as a sexually transmitted pathogenR21AI128313 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI TZENG, YIH-LING · 2017 to 2018
$429k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127863NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI164733
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCross-protective immunity between Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ng) may inform gonococcal vaccine development. Meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) outer membrane vesicle (OMV) vaccines confer modest protection against gonorrhea. However, whether urethral Nm infection protects against gonorrhea is unknown. We examined gonorrhea risk among men with US Nm urethritis clade (US_NmUC) infections.

methodsWe conducted a retrospective cohort study of men with urethral US_NmUC (n = 128) between January 2015 and April 2018. Using diagnosis date as the baseline visit, we examined Ng status at return visits to compute urethral Ng risk. We compared these data to 3 referent populations: men with urethral Ng (n = 253), urethral chlamydia (Ct) (n = 251), and no urethral Ng or Ct (n = 255). We conducted sensitivity analyses to assess varied approaches to censoring, missing data, and anatomical site of infection. We also compared sequences of protein antigens in the OMV-based MenB-4C vaccine, US_NmUC, and Ng.

resultsParticipants were primarily Black (65%) and heterosexual (82%). Over follow-up, 91 men acquired urethral Ng. Men with urethral US_NmUC had similar Ng risk to men with prior urethral Ng (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR]: 1.27; 95% CI: .65-2.48). Men with urethral US_NmUC had nonsignificantly increased Ng risk compared with men with urethral Ct (aHR: 1.51; 95% CI: .79-2.88), and significantly increased Ng risk compared with men without urethral Ng or Ct (aHR: 3.55; 95% CI: 1.27-9.91). Most of the protein antigens analyzed shared high sequence similarity.

conclusionsUrethral US_NmUC infection did not protect against gonorrhea despite substantial sequence similarities in shared protein antigens.

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GonorrheaMeningococcal VaccinesNeisseria meningitidisUrethritisHumansMaleNeisseria gonorrhoeaeRetrospective StudiesMeningococcal VaccinesimmunityNeisseria gonorrhoeaeNeisseria meningitidisurethritisvaccination

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PMID34543381
PMCPMC9258932
OpenAlexW3200253870

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