Bordetella pertussis Strain Lacking Pertactin and Pertussis Toxin
- Margaret M. Williams
- Kathryn Sen
- Michael R. Weigand
- Tami H. Skoff
- Victoria A. Cunningham
- Tanya A. Halse
- M. Lucia Tondella
Publication date
February 2016
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
A Bordetella pertussis strain lacking 2 acellular vaccine immunogens, pertussis toxin and pertactin, was isolated from an unvaccinated infant in New York State in 2013. Comparison with a French strain that was pertussis toxin–deficient, pertactin wild-type showed that the strains carry the same 28-kb deletion in similar genomes
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