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Haemophilus influenzae one day in Denmark: prevalence, circulating clones, and dismal resistance to aminopenicillins by Niels Nørskov-Lauritsen; Nanna Pedersen; Janni U. H. Lam; Hans L. Nielsen; Carl M. Kobel; Dennis S. Hansen; ODiD Consortium is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Haemophilus influenzae one day in Denmark: prevalence, circulating clones, and dismal resistance to aminopenicillins about?
Haemophilus influenzae is a common cause of mucosal infections that warrants accurate surveillance. We aimed to assess the prevalence of the species in clinical specimens, and characterise population structure and resistance to aminopenicillins by whole genome sequencing.We assessed the point prevalence by entering the database records of 1 day in Denmark and examined the genome sequences of nationwide, collected isolates from the same day. The prevalence of H. influenzae in clinical samples on the 10th of January 2018 was 1.78 per 100,000 person-days (all samples), and 2.47 per 1000 hospital bed-days (hospital samples). Of 2009 bacteria deemed clinically relevant and collected in a concerted action by the Danish departments of clinical microbiology, 62 (3.1%) were H. influenzae. All 62 isolates belonged to phylogenetic group I and were unencapsulated. Three strains from separate Danish regions had identical core genome sequences, but a small number of intergenic mutations testified to circulating clones, rather than individual cases of patient-to-patient transmission. The TEM-1 β-lactamase gene was present in 24 strains, while 13 strains were genetically categorised as ampicillin-
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- Author
- Niels Nørskov-Lauritsen; Nanna Pedersen; Janni U. H. Lam; Hans L. Nielsen; Carl M. Kobel; Dennis S. Hansen; ODiD Consortium
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)