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Variation in Bordetella pertussis Susceptibility to Erythromycin and Virulence-Related Genotype Changes in China (1970-2014).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Yang Ying, Yao Kaihu, Ma Xiang, Shi Wei, Yuan Lin, Yang Yonghong
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OBJECTIVES: To investigate changes in virulence-related genotypes and in the antimicrobial susceptibility of Bordetella pertussis isolates collected from the 1970s to 2014 in the northern part of China. METHODS: A total of 124 B. pertussis isolates from three periods, the 1970s, 2000-2008, and May 2013-Sept 2014, were typed by multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and tested for antimicrobial susceptibility and...
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