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Pertussis outbreak, southeastern Minnesota, 2012.
Mayo Clinic proceedings - 1 Oct 2014
Theofiles Alexander G, Cunningham Scott A, Chia Nicholas, Jeraldo Patricio R, Quest Daniel J, Mandrekar Jayawant N, Patel Robin
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OBJECTIVE: To describe clinical and laboratory findings from the 2012 southeastern Minnesota pertussis outbreak. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients were selected for 2 parts of the study. In the first part, nasopharyngeal swabs from a convenience sample of 265 unique patients were used for both the clinician-requested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test and culture. B pertussis isolates were tested for macrolide...
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