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Co-infection with two different strains of Bordetella pertussis in an infant.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Mar 2008
Cassiday Pamela K, Tobin-D'Angelo Melissa, Watson J Renee, Wu Kai-Hui, Park Mahin M, Sanden Gary N
Abstract excerpt
We report co-infection with two phenotypically and genotypically distinct strains of Bordetella pertussis in an infant male hospitalized with a 2-week history of cough, paroxysms and vomiting. Colonies from the two B. pertussis phenotypes were isolated and evaluated by PFGE profile analysis, gene sequence typing and PCR-RFLP of a portion of the 23S rRNA gene. These results demonstrated simultaneous infection with...
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