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SUBMITTER: Myers AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5176238 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Myers Angela L AL Jackson Mary Anne MA Zhang Lixin L Swanson Douglas S DS Gilsdorf Janet R JR
Emerging infectious diseases 20170101 1
During 5 months in 2014, three Amish children in Missouri, USA, were diagnosed with invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b infection. Two were rural neighbors infected with a genetically similar rare strain, sequence type 45. One child had recently traveled, raising the possibility of maintenance of this strain among unvaccinated carriers in Amish communities. ...[more]