In their study, they confirmed that haemorrhagic septicemia-specific sequences KTSP61/KTT72 lacked HS-associated capsular type B and E genes capB and capE that were not used in our study, but we were able to detect capsular type E gene capE by Townsend et al. protocol [9]. Here, SMC2 is linked to Pasteurella hemorrhagic septicemia.