Conservation and Recombination in the Genome Sequence of Haemophilus influenzae Type f WAPHL1

Allen C Bateman; Ailyn C Perez-Osorio; Zhen Li; Michael Tran; Alexander L Greninger

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00929-17

Conservation and Recombination in the Genome Sequence of Haemophilus influenzae Type f WAPHL1

Genome Announc. 2017 Sep 21;5(38):e00929-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00929-17.

Authors

Allen C Bateman¹, Ailyn C Perez-Osorio², Zhen Li², Michael Tran², Alexander L Greninger³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
² Washington State Public Health Laboratory, Seattle, Washington, USA.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA agrening@uw.edu.

Abstract

We report here the second draft genome sequence of a bloodstream isolate of Haemophilus influenzae serotype f. Three discrete 3.1- to 7.8-kb sites contained 80% of the variability in the genome, consistent with recombination in known virulence factors.