Prevalence and Distribution of the <i>hmw</i> and <i>hia</i> Genes and the HMW and Hia Adhesins among Genetically Diverse Strains of Nontypeable <i>Haemophilus influenzae</i>

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Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae is a common cause of human disease and initiates infection by colonizing the upper respiratory tract. In previous work we identified high-molecular-weight adhesins referred to as HMW1 and HMW2, expressed by nontypeable strain 12, and determined that most strains of nontypeable H. influenzae express one or two antigenically related proteins. More recently, we determined that some...

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