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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-6-15
pubmed:abstractText
Recently, there has been an increase in The Netherlands in the number of cases of invasive disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib). To study a possible change in the Hib population that could explain the rise in incidence, a multiple-locus variable number tandem repeats analysis (MLVA) was developed to genotype H. influenzae isolates. The MLVA enabled the differentiation of H. influenzae serotype b strains with higher discriminatory power than multilocus sequence typing (MLST). MLVA profiles of noncapsulated H. influenzae and H. influenzae serotype f strains were more heterogeneous than serotype b strains and were distinct from Hib, although some overlap occurred. The MLVA was used to genotype a collection of 520 H. influenzae serotype b strains isolated from patients in The Netherlands with invasive disease. The strains were collected from 1983 from 2002, covering a time period of 10 years before and 9 years after the introduction of the Hib vaccine in the Dutch national vaccination program. MLVA revealed a sharp increase in genetic diversity of Hib strains isolated from neonates to 4-year-old patients after 1993, when the Hib vaccine was introduced. Hib strains isolated from patients older than 4 years in age were genetically diverse, and no significant change in diversity was seen after the introduction of the vaccine. These observations suggest that after the introduction of the Hib vaccine young children no longer constitute the reservoir for Hib and that they are infected by adults carrying genetically diverse Hib strains.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0095-1137
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
43
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2741-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Bacterial Capsules, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Genetic Variation, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Genotype, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Haemophilus Infections, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Haemophilus Vaccines, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Haemophilus influenzae type b, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Immunization Programs, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Minisatellite Repeats, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-National Health Programs, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Netherlands, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Polysaccharides, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Serotyping, pubmed-meshheading:15956392-Vaccination
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Increase in genetic diversity of Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib) strains after introduction of Hib vaccination in The Netherlands.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands. LM.Schouls@rivm.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article