Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Lineage-specific Virulence Determinants of Haemophilus influenzae Biogroup aegyptius

Fiona R. Strouts¹, Peter Power, Nicholas J. Croucher, Nicola Corton, Andries van Tonder, Michael A. Quail, Paul R. Langford, Michael J. Hudson, Julian Parkhill, J. Simon Kroll

, and Stephen D. Bentley

Author affiliations: Imperial College London, London, UK (F.R. Strouts, P.R. Langford, J.S. Kroll); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (P. Power); Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK (N.J. Croucher, N. Corton, A. van Tonder, M.A. Quail, J. Parkhill, S.D. Bentley); The Health Protection Agency, Salisbury, UK (M.J. Hudson)

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Figure 6

Domain organization of the Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius trimeric autotransporter adhesins TabA1/TahA1 and TabA2/TahA2, showing differences in passenger domain sequence motifs. Purple, C-terminal translocator domain; red, hemagglutinin domains; green, Hap_Hag domains; orange, degenerate repeats; blue, N terminal signal peptide.

Figure 6. Domain organization of the Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius trimeric autotransporter adhesins TabA1/TahA1 and TabA2/TahA2, showing differences in passenger domain sequence motifs. Purple, C-terminal translocator domain; red, hemagglutinin domains; green, Hap_Hag domains; orange, degenerate repeats; blue, N terminal signal peptide.

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¹Current affiliation: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA.

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