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Volume 23, Number 8—August 2017
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Clonal Expansion of New Penicillin-Resistant Clade of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup W Clonal Complex 11, Australia

Shakeel MowlaboccusComments to Author , Keith A. Jolley, James E. Bray, Stanley Pang, Yung Thin Lee, Jane D. Bew, David J. Speers, Anthony D. Keil, Geoffrey W. Coombs, and Charlene M. Kahler
Author affiliations: University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (S. Mowlaboccus, D.J. Speers, C.M. Kahler); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (K.A. Jolley, J.E. Bray); Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia (S. Pang, Y.T. Lee, G.W. Coombs); Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth (S. Pang, G.W. Coombs); Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, Perth (J.D. Bew, D.J. Speers); Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth (A.D. Keil); Telethon Kids Institute, Perth (C.M. Kahler)

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Phylogenetic reconstruction by using an unrooted neighbor-net algorithm of core genomes of clonal complex 11 Neisseria meningitidis strains with serogroup W capsules (MenW:cc11), Western Australia, Australia, January 2013–December 2016. Blue circles indicate isolates in cluster A from Western Australia; red circles indicate isolates in cluster B from Western Australia; gray circle indicates ExNm672, a strain isolated from a traveler; open squares indicate the 5 MenW:cc11 isolates in the PubMLST

Figure 2. Phylogenetic reconstruction by using an unrooted neighbor-net algorithm of core genomes of clonal complex 11 Neisseria meningitidis strains with serogroup W capsules (MenW:cc11), Western Australia, Australia, January 2013–December 2016. Blue circles indicate isolates in cluster A from Western Australia; red circles indicate isolates in cluster B from Western Australia; gray circle indicates ExNm672, a strain isolated from a traveler; open squares indicate the 5 MenW:cc11 isolates in the PubMLST database (http://pubmlst.org/neisseria) that contains the penA_253 allele; and black squares indicate reference MenW:cc11 strains, isolated after 2010, as described by Lucidarme et al. (8). M7124 is the Hajj clone isolated in Saudi Arabia in 2000. Numbers in parentheses indicate PubMLST numbers of reference isolates. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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