Genome Sequences for Five Strains of the Emerging Pathogen Haemophilus haemolyticus.

Jordan IK, Conley AB, Antonov IV, Arthur RA, Cook ED, Cooper GP, Jones BL, Knipe KM, Lee KJ, Liu X, Mitchell GJ, Pande PR, Petit RA, Qin S, Rajan VN, Sarda S, Sebastian A, Tang S, Thapliyal R, Varghese NJ, Ye T, Katz LS, Wang X, Rowe L, Frace M, Mayer LW.

Source

Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333. lwm1@cdc.gov .

Abstract

We report the first whole-genome sequences for five strains, two carried and three pathogenic, of the emerging pathogen Haemophilus haemolyticus. Preliminary analyses indicate that these genome sequences encode markers that distinguish H. haemolyticus from its closest Haemophilus relatives and provide clues to the identity of its virulence factors.