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Shifts of Bordetella pertussis variants in Sweden from 1970 to 2003, during three periods marked by different vaccination programs.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2005
Hallander Hans O, Advani Abdolreza, Donnelly Declan, Gustafsson Lennart, Carlsson Rose-Marie
Abstract excerpt
The Swedish population of Bordetella pertussis strains was characterized from 1,247 isolates covering a whole-cell vaccine program up to 1979, a 17-year period without vaccination (1979 to 1996), and a period after the introduction of general vaccination among newborns with acellular pertussis vaccines (1997 to 2003). Strains were characterized by serotyping and genotyping of pertactin and ptxA and by means of...
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