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Volume 24, Number 4—April 2018
Dispatch

Direct Whole-Genome Sequencing of Cutaneous Strains of Haemophilus ducreyi

Michael Marks1Comments to Author , Maria Fookes1, Josef Wagner, Rosanna Ghinai, Oliver Sokana, Yaw-Adu Sarkodie, Anthony W. Solomon, David C.W. Mabey, and Nicholas R. Thomson
Author affiliations: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK (M. Marks, R. Ghinai, A.W. Solomon, D.C.W. Mabey, N.R. Thomson); Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London (M. Marks, A.W. Solomon, D.C.W. Mabey); Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre, Cambridge, UK (M. Fookes, J. Wagner, N.R. Thomson); Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Honiara, Solomon Islands (O. Sokana); Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana (Y.-A. Sarkodie)

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Figure 1

Flowchart of whole-genome sequencing of Haemophilus ducreyi. Samples were originally collected in 2 studies conducted in Ghana (2014) and the Solomon Islands (2013) (2,4). Results of the H. ducreyi PCR conducted in the original studies and of the 2 H. ducreyi PCRs performed in this study are shown.

Figure 1. Flowchart of whole-genome sequencing of Haemophilus ducreyi. Samples were originally collected in 2 studies conducted in Ghana (2014) and the Solomon Islands (2013) (2,4). Results of the H. ducreyi PCR conducted in the original studies and of the 2 H. ducreyi PCRs performed in this study are shown.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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