Bordetella pertussis, Finland and France
- Valérie Caro
- Annika Elomaa
- Delphine Brun
- Jussi Mertsola
- Qiushui He
- Nicole Guiso
Publication date
June 2006
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
We used pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis and genotyping to compare clinical isolates of Bordetella pertussis recovered since the early 1990s in Finland and France, 2 countries with similar histories of long-term mass vaccination with whole-cell pertussis vaccines. Isolates from both countries were similar genetically but varied temporally
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