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Volume 31, Number 1—January 2025
Research

Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup Y Sequence Type 1466 and Urogenital Infections

Sebastiaan J. van HalComments to Author , Thomas Le, Frances Jenkins, Ratan L. Kundu, E. Athena Limnios, Lucy A. McNamara, Shalabh Sharma, Ellen N. Kersh, and Monica M. Lahra
Author affiliation: University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (S.J. van Hal); Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney (S.J. van Hal, T. Le, F. Jenkins); World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for STI and AMR at Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia (R.L. Kundu, E.A. Limnios, M.M. Lahra); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (L.A. McNamara, S. Sharma, E.N. Kersh); World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for STI Surveillance at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (E.N. Kersh); The University of New South Wales, Sydney (M.M. Lahra)

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Figure 1

Relatedness of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y ST1466 isolates from Australia and the United States compared with isolates from other countries. A) Timed maximum-likelihood phylogeny of included isolates of serogroup Y ST1466. Associated metadata are shown to the right of the tree. B) Genomic epidemiology of ST1466 showing transmission lines generated using Nextstrain (24). ST, sequence type.

Figure 1. Relatedness of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y ST1466 isolates from Australia and the United States compared with isolates from other countries. A) Timed maximum-likelihood phylogeny of included isolates of serogroup Y ST1466. Associated metadata are shown to the right of the tree. B) Genomic epidemiology of ST1466 showing transmission lines generated using Nextstrain (24). ST, sequence type.

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