Isolated from the middle-ear of a child with chronic otitis media. Haemophilus influenzae PittDD

Haemophilus influenzae PittDD. Strain PittDD is a non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) isolate recovered by Dr. Robert Wadowsky from the middle-ear effusion of a child in Pittsburgh who was undergoing tympanostomy and ventilation tube placement for the treatment of chronic otitis media with effusion (COME). In the chinchilla model, PittDD infection induces COME and causes significant, but typically non-fatal, systemic disease. Sequenced and assembled using technology developed by 454 Life Sciences, Inc. (www.454.com). The genome sequence currently consists of 156 contigs.