Volume 12, Number 7, July 2006

Neisseria meningitidis Sequence Type and Risk for Death, Iceland

Magnús Gottfreðsson,*† Mathew A. Diggle,‡ David I. Lawrie,‡ Helga Erlendsdóttir,* Hjördís Harðardóttir,* Karl G. Kristinsson,*† and Stuart C. Clarke‡§
*Landspítali University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland; †University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland; ‡Scottish Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory, Glasgow, United Kingdom; and §University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Figure 2. Phylogenetic relationships of invasive meningococcal isolates in Iceland, 1977–2004. Unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) was used to construct the tree with the Sequence Type Analysis and Recombinational Tests (START) suite of programs. Sequence types (STs) and allelic profiles are given on the right. All STs that were encountered in >3 clinical cases and all new STs are shown.

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