Article
Human Bordetella bronchiseptica infection related to contact with infected animals: persistence of bacteria in host.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 1995
Gueirard P, Weber C, Le Coustumier A, Guiso N
Abstract excerpt
Within a period of 2 1/2 years, Bordetella bronchiseptica was isolated four times from a 79-year-old woman with bronchopneumonia. We have demonstrated by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis that this infection was related to contact with infected rabbits. The initial human B. bronchiseptica isolate...
Topics
- Adenylyl Cyclases
- Aged
- Animals
- Antibodies, Bacterial
- Bordetella Infections
- Bordetella bronchiseptica
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Hemolysin Proteins
- Humans
- Phenotype
- Rabbits
- Time Factors
- Zoonoses