Article
Bordetella parapertussis isolates not expressing pertactin circulating in France.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 May 2011
Bouchez V, Brun D, Dore G, Njamkepo E, Guiso N
Abstract excerpt
Surprisingly, most Bordetella parapertussis isolates collected in France since 2007 do not express pertactin, owing to mutations in the structural gene encoding this protein. We used a 454 pyrosequencing strategy to study and compare the genetics of two B. parapertussis isolates (one expressing pertactin and one not expressing pertactin) and the reference strain. No region of difference was detected between the...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Bordetella parapertussis
- Bordetella pertussis
- DNA, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- France
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genome, Bacterial
- Mice
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests