Bordetella pertussis clones identified by multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 297-300

  Kurniawan, Jacob ^a   Maharjan, Ram P ^a   Chan, Wai Fong ^a   Reeves, Peter R ^b   Sintchenko, Vitali ^b,c   Gilbert, Gwendolyn L ^b,c   Mooi, Frits R ^d   Lan, Ruiting ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERTUSSIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CLONE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PERTUSSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

AUSTRALIA; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; WHOOPING COUGH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 76149136374     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1602.081707     Document Type: Article

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