TY - JOUR AU - Marks, Michael AU - Fookes, Maria AU - Wagner, Josef AU - Ghinai, Rosanna AU - Sokana, Oliver AU - Sarkodie, Yaw-Adu AU - Solomon, Anthony AU - Mabey, David C.W. AU - Thomson, Nicholas T1 - Direct Whole-Genome Sequencing of Cutaneous Strains of Haemophilus ducreyi T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2018 VL - 24 IS - 4 SP - 786 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Haemophilus ducreyi, which causes chancroid, has emerged as a cause of pediatric skin disease. Isolation of H. ducreyi in low-income settings is challenging, limiting phylogenetic investigation. Next-generation sequencing demonstrates that cutaneous strains arise from class I and II H. ducreyi clades and that class II may represent a distinct subspecies. KW - Whole-genome sequencing KW - 16S rRNA gene sequencing KW - next-generation sequencing KW - yaws KW - chancroid KW - Haemophilus ducreyi KW - Treponema pallidum KW - children KW - skin disease KW - bacteria KW - Solomon Islands KW - Ghana DO - 10.3201/eid2404.171726 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/4/17-1726_article ER - End of Reference