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Volume 30, Number 2—February 2024
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Obstetric and Neonatal Invasive Meningococcal Disease Caused by Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup W, Western Australia, Australia

Julie HartComments to Author , Gary K. Dowse, Michelle Porter, David J. Speers, Anthony D. Keil, Jane D. Bew, Shakeel Mowlaboccus, and Charlene M. Kahler
Author affiliations: Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia (J. Hart, M. Porter, D.J. Speers, A.D. Keil, J.D. Bew); Department of Health, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (G.K. Dowse); The University of Western Australia, Perth (D.J. Speers, S. Mowlaboccus, C.M. Kahler)

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Figure 1

Phylogenetic relationship of 2 invasive Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W (MenW:cc11) strains from 3 mother-baby pairs with invasive meningococcal disease in Western Australia, Australia, compared with other local and international isolates. The neighbor-net phylogenetic network was constructed based on 1,605 core genome loci using the Genome Comparator tool available on the PubMLST Neisseria website (https://pubmlst.org/organisms/neisseria-spp). Red indicates the 2 isolates reported in this study ; pink circles indicate isolates from Western Australia reported by Mowlaboccus et al. (1); blue, green, and white circles indicate isolates from the Australian Penicillin Resistance–Associated Lineage reported by Willerton et al. (3) from New Zealand, Canada, and Europe, respectively; black squares indicate reference invasive MenW/cc11 strains characterized by Lucidarme et al. (4). Identification numbers in parentheses indicate PubMLST identification numbers of reference isolates. Inset at top shows full phylogenetic trees; callout at left shows urethral N. meningitidis strains strains from Tzeng et al. (2) and Ma et al. (5), which were isolated from urethral swabs in the United States (NM1, NM2), the United Kingdom (M11_240294, M11_241043, M13_240559), Italy (PE5, PE6, PE7), and France (LNP26948, LNP27256). Scale bar indicates number of different loci among the 1,605 compared.

Figure 1. Phylogenetic relationship of 2 invasive Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W (MenW:cc11) strains from 3 mother-baby pairs with invasive meningococcal disease in Western Australia, Australia, compared with other local and international isolates. The neighbor-net phylogenetic network was constructed based on 1,605 core genome loci using the Genome Comparator tool available on the PubMLST Neisseria website (https://pubmlst.org/organisms/neisseria-spp). Red indicates the 2 isolates reported in this study ; pink circles indicate isolates from Western Australia reported by Mowlaboccus et al. (1); blue, green, and white circles indicate isolates from the Australian Penicillin Resistance–Associated Lineage reported by Willerton et al. (3) from New Zealand, Canada, and Europe, respectively; black squares indicate reference invasive MenW/cc11 strains characterized by Lucidarme et al. (4). Identification numbers in parentheses indicate PubMLST identification numbers of reference isolates. Inset at top shows full phylogenetic trees; callout at left shows urethral N. meningitidis strains strains from Tzeng et al. (2) and Ma et al. (5), which were isolated from urethral swabs in the United States (NM1, NM2), the United Kingdom (M11_240294, M11_241043, M13_240559), Italy (PE5, PE6, PE7), and France (LNP26948, LNP27256). Scale bar indicates number of different loci among the 1,605 compared.

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