Isolated from the external ear discharge of a child with otorrhea. Haemophilus influenzae PittGG

Haemophilus influenzae PittGG. Strain PittGG is a non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) isolate recovered by Dr. Robert Wadowsky from the external ear discharge of a spontaneously perforated tympanic membrane of a child in Pittsburgh who had been diagnosed with otorrhea. In the chinchilla model, PittGG infection induces acute otitis media (AOM) and causes virulent, uniformly fatal, systemic disease. Sequenced and assembled using technology developed by 454 Life Sciences, Inc. (www.454.com), supplemented with double-barreled Sanger dideoxy sequencing read data from traditional clone libraries. The genome sequence is currently comprised of 60 contigs, and has been sequenced to a depth of 35X.