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SUBMITTER: Muyldermans G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC387558 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Muyldermans Gaëtan G Piérard Denis D Hoebrekx Nathalie N Advani Reza R Van Amersfoorth Shirley S De Schutter Iris I Soetens Oriane O Eeckhout Leo L Malfroot Anne A Lauwers Sabine S
Journal of clinical microbiology 20040401 4
Studies performed in several countries have demonstrated the recent emergence and subsequent dominance of circulating Bordetella pertussis strains harboring pertactin and pertussis toxin variants not included in pertussis vaccines. Determination of the pertactin gene variants is commonly performed using a time-consuming and expensive sequence analysis. We developed a simple and reliable pertactin typing algorithm suitable for large-scale screening. The assay correctly identified all pertactin al ...[more]