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| Haemophilus influenzae | Haemophilus influenzae, formerly called Pfeiffer's bacillus, is a non-motile Gram-negative coccobacillus first described in 1892 by Dr. Robert Pfeiffer during the influenza pandemic. It is generally aerobic, but can grow as a facultative anaerobe. Haemophilus influenzae was mistakenly considered to be the cause of the common flu until 1933, when the viral etiology of the flu became apparent. Still, Haemophilus influenzae is responsible for a wide range of clinical diseases. Because of its small genome, Haemophilus influenzae became the first free-living organism with its entire genome sequenced. Its genome consists of 1,830,140 base pairs of DNA and contains 1740 genes. The sequencing project, completed and published in Science in 1995, was conducted at The Institute for Genomic Research under the direction of Dr. Robert Fleischmann. (references) | ||
| Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius | Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius (Hae) was discovered independently by Koch and Weeks in the 1880s. It is a causative agent of conjunctivitis. In and around the São Paulo State of Brazil during the mid 1980s to early 1990s a clonal group of Hae was found to be responsible for Brazilian purpuric fever (BPF), an acute septacaemic fulminant illness of children. (references) | ||
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