Clinical Characteristics and Molecular Epidemiology of Invasive Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae at a Tertiary Medical Center in Washington, DC
Jose Lucar, Stephen Stone, Matthew Spence, Marc O Siegel, Afsoon Roberts, Tara N Palmore, Maria Elena Ruiz, Huma Saleem, Sarah Lohsen, Charlotte J Royer, Lauren F Collins, Rebecca Yee, Sarah W Satola · 2026
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Jose Lucar and colleagues reported a sharp rise in invasive disease from nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae at a Washington, DC hospital in a 2026 case study. Nine adults arrived over nine months with severe illness from this bacterium, now the main cause of invasive H. influenzae disease since vaccination tamed the type b strain.
Genome sequencing showed some illnesses came from one shared strain and others from unrelated ones, hinting at mixed spread patterns rather than a single outbreak. The authors call for wider surveillance of a germ that increasingly strikes adults, including people with HIV, as vaccine success reshapes which strains circulate.
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| CREATOR | Jose Lucar, Stephen Stone, Matthew Spence, Marc O Siegel, Afsoon Roberts, Tara N Palmore, Maria Elena Ruiz, Huma Saleem, Sarah Lohsen, Charlotte J Royer, Lauren F Collins, Rebecca Yee, Sarah W Satola |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16867 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |