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Krztusiec I „Efekt Czerwonej Królowej”

Postępy Mikrobiologii, 2022
Krztusiec jest zakaźną chorobą, typową dla wieku dziecięcego. Znamiennym objawem jest napadowy, silny i bezproduktywny kaszel, pogarszający się w nocy, który może prowadzić do wymiotów, bezdechu oraz sinicy.
Ucieklak Karolina
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Pertussis among patients with clinically compatible illness in the Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background: Pertussis is an acute respiratory tract disease caused by Bordetella pertussis. In 2014, 24.1 million pertussis cases, resulting in 160,700 deaths, were estimated to have occurred worldwide.
Solomon Taye, Zemene Tigabu, Debasu Damtie, Gizachew Yismaw, Clinton Moodley, Mark P. Nicol, Belay Tessema, Baye Gelaw, Feleke Moges   +8 more
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Epidemiology of pertussis in Casablanca (Morocco): contribution of conventional and molecular diagnosis tools

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background Pertussis, a vaccine preventable disease, is still responsible of significant morbidity and mortality around the world, mostly in newborns.
Khalid Katfy, Nicole Guiso, Idrissa Diawara, Khalid Zerouali, Bouchra Slaoui, Zineb Jouhadi, Abdelhadi Zineddine, Houria Belabbes, Naima Elmdaghri   +8 more
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Improving specificity of Bordetella pertussis detection using a four target real-time PCR. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
The incidence of whooping cough, a contagious respiratory disease caused by Bordetella pertussis, is on the rise despite existing vaccination programmes.
Helena Martini, Liselot Detemmerman, Oriane Soetens, Erlangga Yusuf, Denis Piérard   +4 more
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Emergence of Bordetella holmesii as a Causative Agent of Whooping Cough, Barcelona, Spain

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
We describe the detection of Bordetella holmesii as a cause of whooping cough in Spain. Prevalence was 3.9% in 2015, doubling to 8.8% in 2016. This emergence raises concern regarding the contribution of B.
Alba Mir-Cros, Gema Codina, M. Teresa Martín-Gómez, Anna Fàbrega, Xavier Martínez, Mireia Jané, Diego Van Esso, Thais Cornejo, Carlos Rodrigo, Magda Campins, Tomàs Pumarola, Juan José González-López   +11 more
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Pertussis in infants, in their mothers and other contacts in Casablanca, Morocco

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background In recent decades, there has been a marked increase in the number of reported cases of pertussis around the world, and pertussis continues to be a frequently occurring disease despite an effective childhood vaccination.
Khalid Katfy, Idrissa Diawara, Fakhredine Maaloum, Siham Aziz, Nicole Guiso, Hassan Fellah, Bouchra Slaoui, Khalid Zerouali, Houria Belabbes, Naima Elmdaghri   +9 more
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Evaluation of real-time PCR for diagnosis of Bordetella pertussis infection

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2006
Background Nucleic acid amplification of the IS481 region by PCR is more sensitive than culture for detection and diagnosis of Bordetella pertussis but the assay has known cross-reactivity for Bordetella holmesii and its use as a routine diagnostic assay
Fox Julie D, Knorr Laina, Tilley Peter AG, Ahmed-Bentley Jasmine   +3 more
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Conserved Patterns of Symmetric Inversion in the Genome Evolution of Bordetella Respiratory Pathogens

mSystems, 2019
Whooping cough (pertussis), primarily caused by Bordetella pertussis, has resurged in the United States, and circulating strains exhibit considerable chromosome structural fluidity in the form of rearrangement and deletion.
Michael R. Weigand, Yanhui Peng, Dhwani Batra, Mark Burroughs, Jamie K. Davis, Kristen Knipe, Vladimir N. Loparev, Taccara Johnson, Phalasy Juieng, Lori A. Rowe, Mili Sheth, Kevin Tang, Yvette Unoarumhi, Margaret M. Williams, M. Lucia Tondella   +14 more
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Laboratory-based surveillance of pertussis using multitarget real-time PCR in Japan: evidence for Bordetella pertussis infection in preteens and teens

New Microbes and New Infections, 2015
Between January 2013 and December 2014, we conducted laboratory-based surveillance of pertussis using multitarget real-time PCR, which discriminates among Bordetella pertussis, Bordetella parapertussis, Bordetella holmesii and Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
K. Kamachi, S. Yoshino, C. Katsukawa, N. Otsuka, Y. Hiramatsu, K. Shibayama   +5 more
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Bordetella Holmesii: An Unusual Cause of Endogenous Endophthalmitis in a Patient With Sickle Cell Disease [PDF]

, 2021
Purpose: This case report describes a rare organism causing endogenous endophthalmitis in a patient with sickle cell disease. Methods: A case report was conducted.
George, Roshan T., Zhang, Alice Yang, Pegany, Roma B.   +2 more
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