“The well-authenticated detection of Haemophilus influenzae in an early medieval child promises that it will be detectable in more cases in history, and potentially prehistory,” he says.

The first bacterial genome sequence, that of Haemophilus influenzae, was published in 1995 and took 1 year to complete, whereas draft bacterial genomes can now be produced in a matter of days.

H. influenzae is very unlikely to cause true bacteriologic AOM relapses14 days or later after completion of therapy. The purpose of this study was to determine the etiology, the temporal ...