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[Characteristics of Bordetelia pertussis strains isolated from pertussis patients in Moscow by using multilocus sequencing].
Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii - 1 Jan 2000
borisova O Iu, Mazurova I K, Ivashinnikova G A, Gadua N T, Rudakova I A, Salova N Ia, Trebunskikh I P, Skachkova V G, Panferova R A, Mooi F, Aleshkin V A
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AIM: Genotyping of B. pertussis strains isolated from pertussis patients in Moscow. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 53 strains of B. pertussis isolated from pertussis patients in Moscow in 2007 - 2010 as well as 3 vaccine strains currently used in Russia for the production of DTP vaccine were studied by multilocus sequencing (MLST) based on allele combinations of ptxA, ptxC and tcfA genes. RESULTS: A genetic...
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