Two cases of type-a Haemophilus influenzae meningitis within the same week in the same hospital are phylogenetically unrelated but recently exchanged capsule genes
Y. Terrat, L. Farnaes, J. Bradley, N. Tromas, B. J. Shapiro
This paper reports two unrelated H. influenzae meningitis cases in the same hospital, showing they were not part of a local outbreak but instead involved horizontal gene transfer of capsule genes, enabling vaccine evasion.
bioRxiv · Jun 20, 2019Microbiology