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Changes in the Dutch Bordetella pertussis population in the first 20 years after the introduction of whole-cell vaccines
1 Jul 2002
Abstract excerpt
Despite the introduction of mass vaccination in 1953 in The Netherlands, pertussis is currently an endemic disease with regular epidemic outbreaks. Changes in the Bordetella pertussis population in the first 20 years after the introduction of vaccination were studied by indexing IS1002 fingerprint types, fimbrial serotypes and 15 genes encoding surface proteins. Three periods were compared, the pre-vaccination...
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