Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup W135 Sequence Type 11, Anhui Province, China, 2011–2013
Shoukui Hu
1, Wenyan Zhang
1, Furong Li, Zhongwang Hu, Erjian Ma, Tianli Zheng, Yingying Zhao, Wei Li, Haijian Zhou, Zhujun Shao, and Jianguo Xu
Author affiliations: State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China (S. Hu, Y. Zhao, W. Li, H. Zhou, Z. Shao, J. Xu); National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing (S. Hu, Y. Zhao, W. Li, H. Zhou, Z. Shao, J. Xu); Anhui Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, China (S. Hu, F. Li); Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei (W. Zhang, Z. Hu, E. Ma); Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (T. Zheng); Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Beijing (J. Xu)
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Figure. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern–based cluster analysis of 27 Nmeningitidis serogroup W135 isolates from China: 17 isolates were collected from persons in Hefei City, Anhui Province, and 10 were collected from persons from other provinces in ChinaClustering was performed by using the Dice coefficient and an optimization setting of 1.2%The dendrogram was generated by using the unweighted pair group method with averagesAll isolates belong to the multilocus sequence type 11/electrophoretic type 37 complex.
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