Newly emerging clones of bordetella pertussis carrying prn2 and ptxP3 alleles implicated in australian pertussis epidemic in 2008-2010

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 205, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1220-1224

  Octavia, Sophie ^a   Sintchenko, Vitali ^b,c   Gilbert, Gwendolyn L ^c   Lawrence, Andrew ^d   Keil, Anthony D ^e   Hogg, Geoff ^f   Lan, Ruiting ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; EPIDEMIC; FIM3 GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PERTUSSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRN2 GENE; PTXP3 GENE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; EPIDEMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 84859074031     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis178     Document Type: Article

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