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Invasive type e Haemophilus influenzae disease in Italy
Marina Cerquetti1, Marta Luisa Ciofi degli Atti, Rita Cardines
1Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. mcerquet@iss.it
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|February 27, 2003
Abstract:
We describe the first reported cases of invasive type e Haemophilus influenzae disease in Italy. All five cases occurred in adults. The isolates were susceptible to ampicillin and eight other antimicrobial agents. Molecular analysis showed two distinct type e strains circulating in Italy, both containing a single copy of the capsulation locus.