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Selection and emergence of pertussis toxin promoter ptxP3 allele in the evolution of Bordetella pertussis.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2012
Lam Connie, Octavia Sophie, Bahrame Zahra, Sintchenko Vitali, Gilbert Gwendolyn L, Lan Ruiting
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionary studies using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have separated Bordetella pertussis isolates into six major clusters, with recent isolates forming cluster I. The expansion of cluster I isolates was characterised by changes in genes encoding antigenic components in acellular vacc...
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