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Infection and Immunity, February 2005, p. 1221-1225, Vol. 73, No. 2
0019-9567/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.73.2.1221-1225.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Identification of New hmwA Alleles from Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae

I. Zafer Ecevit,1 Kirk W. McCrea,1 Carl F. Marrs,2 and Janet R. Gilsdorf1,2*

Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases,1 Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan2

Received 20 April 2004/ Returned for modification 3 June 2004/ Accepted 13 October 2004

High-molecular-weight proteins of Haemophilus influenzae mediate attachment to epithelial cells. Previous reports describe several allelic versions of hmwA genes that have different adherence properties. Here we report three new alleles of hmwA (hmwA from strain AAr96, hmwA from strain AAr105, and hmwA from strain G822), demonstrating the high degree of DNA variation of these genes among different strains.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0244. Phone: (734) 763-2440. Fax: (734) 936-7635. E-mail: gilsdorf{at}umich.edu.

Editor: J. N. Weiser

Infection and Immunity, February 2005, p. 1221-1225, Vol. 73, No. 2
0019-9567/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.73.2.1221-1225.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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