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SUBMITTER: Guthrie JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2849596 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guthrie J L JL Robertson A V AV Tang P P Jamieson F F Drews S J SJ
Journal of clinical microbiology 20100224 4
Bordetella holmesii is a human pathogen found mainly in immunocompromised patients. A specific real-time PCR assay was developed and successfully used to identify specimens from which B. holmesii was misidentified as Bordetella pertussis and to establish the prevalence of B. holmesii in Ontario patients with pertussis-like symptoms. ...[more]