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Bordetella pertussis

Microbiology Spectrum, 2016
ABSTRACTPertussis is a highly infectious vaccine-preventable cough illness that continues to be a significant source of morbidity and mortality around the world. The majority of human illness is caused byBordetella pertussis, and some is caused byBordetella parapertussis.Bordetellais a Gram-negative, pleomorphic, aerobic coccobacillus.
Delma J, Nieves, Ulrich, Heininger
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Pertussis post-exposure prophylaxis among household contacts: a cost-utility analysis. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Recent pertussis outbreaks have prompted re-examination of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) strategies, when immunization is not immediately protective.
Crowcroft, Natasha S, Gurol-Urganci, Ipek, Sander, Beate, Thampi, Nisha   +3 more
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Bordetella parapertussis Survives inside Human Macrophages in Lipid Raft-Enriched Phagosomes [PDF]

, 2014
Bordetella parapertussis is a human pathogen that causes whooping cough. The increasing incidence of B. parapertussis has been attributed to the lack of cross protection induced by pertussis vaccines. It was previously shown that B. parapertussis is able
Gorgojo, Juan Pablo, Harvill, Eric, Rodriguez, Maria Eugenia   +2 more
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DGR mutagenic transposition occurs via hypermutagenic reverse transcription primed by nicked template RNA. [PDF]

, 2017
Diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs) are molecular evolution machines that facilitate microbial adaptation to environmental changes. Hypervariation occurs via a mutagenic retrotransposition process from a template repeat (TR) to a variable repeat ...
Guo, Huatao, Han, Jin, Heng, Xiao, Lee, William R, Miller, Jeff F, Naorem, Santa S, Wang, Shufang   +6 more
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Complete Genome Sequences of Bordetella flabilis, Bordetella bronchialis, and “ Bordetella pseudohinzii ”

Genome Announcements, 2016
ABSTRACT We report here the complete genome sequences of Bordetella flabilis and Bordetella bronchialis recovered from cultures of individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF), and “ Bordetella pseudohinzii ” recovered from a CF mouse model.
Spilker, Theodore, Darrah, Rebecca, LiPuma, John J.   +2 more
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Infants hospitalized for Bordetella pertussis infection commonly have respiratory viral coinfections [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Whether viral coinfections cause more severe disease than Bordetella pertussis (B. pertussis) alone remains unclear. We compared clinical disease severity and sought clinical and demographic differences between infants with B.
Agricola, Eleonora, Buttinelli, Gabriele, Campagna, Ilaria, Carsetti, R., Concato, C., DI MATTIA, Greta, Fedele, Giorgio, Ferretti, Beatrice, Frassanito, Antonella, Gesualdo, Francesco, Gonfiantini, Michaela Veronika, Marcellini, Valentina, Midulla, Fabio, Nenna, Raffaella, Nicolai, Ambra, Pandolfi, Elisabetta, Pierangeli, Alessandra, Russo, Luisa, Schiavoni, I., Stefanelli, P., Tozzi, A. E., Vennarucci, Valentina Spuri, Villani, Alberto   +22 more
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Thirteen-month duration of immunity of an oral canine vaccine against challenge with Bordetella bronchiseptica

Veterinary Record Open, 2020
Background Very few studies have evaluated the duration of immunity of Bordetella bronchiseptica vaccines in dogs, and to date, no studies have been published on the duration of immunity of oral canine Bordetella bronchiseptica vaccines.
Yu-Wei Chiang, Frederic David, Maya Scott-Garrard, Xinshuo Wang   +3 more
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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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Controlled Human Infection With Bordetella pertussis Induces Asymptomatic, Immunizing Colonization

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Bordetella pertussis is among the leading causes of vaccine-preventable deaths and morbidity globally. Human asymptomatic carriage as a reservoir for community transmission of infections might be a target of future vaccine strategies, but has ...
H. de Graaf, Muktar M Ibrahim, Alison R. Hill, D. Gbesemete, A. Vaughan, A. Gorringe, A. Preston, A. Buisman, S. Faust, K. Kester, Guy A. M. Berbers, D. Diavatopoulos, R. Read   +12 more
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Severe pertussis infection in infants less than 6 months of age: clinical manifestations and molecular characterization [PDF]

, 2017
We conducted a study to determine the main traits of pertussis among unimmunized infants less than 6 months of age. From August 2012 to March 2015, 141 nasopharyngeal aspirates (NPAs) were collected from infants with respiratory symptoms attending 2
Buttinelli, Gabriele, Carsetti, Rita, Concato, Carlo, Di Mattia, Greta, Fedele, Giorgio, Gesualdo, Francesco, Midulla, Fabio, Nicolai, Ambra, Stefanelli, Paola, the Pertussis Study Group,, Tozzi, Alberto E., Vacca, Paola, Villani, Alberto   +12 more
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