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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2015

Analysis of Bordetella pertussis clinical isolates circulating in European countries during the period 1998-2012.

M van Gent, C J Heuvelman, H G van der Heide, H O Hallander, A Advani, N Guiso, C H Wirsing von Kőnig, D F Vestrheim, T Dalby, N K Fry and 16 more

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Article in European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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47 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

26 authors at 15 institutions in 13 countries.

M van GentCentre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, marjolein.van.gent@rivm.nl.
C J Heuvelman
H G van der Heide
H O Hallander
A Advani
N Guiso
C H Wirsing von Kőnig
D F Vestrheim
T Dalby
N K Fry
D Pierard
L Detemmerman
J Zavadilova
K Fabianova
C Logan
A Habington
M Byrne
A Lutyńska
E Mosiej
C Pelaz
K Gröndahl-Yli-Hannuksela
A M Barkoff
J Mertsola
A Economopoulou
Q He
F R Mooi
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment · NLFinnish Institute for Health and Welfare · FIOur Lady's Hospital · IENational Institute of Public Health · PLNational Institute of Public Health · CZSwedish Institute · SEUniversitair Ziekenhuis Brussel · BECentro Nacional de Microbiologia · ESEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control · SEHelios Klinikum Krefeld · DEInstitut Pasteur · FRNorwegian Institute of Public Health · NOPublic Health England · GBStatens Serum Institut · DKTurku University Hospital · FI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite more than 50 years of vaccination, pertussis is still an endemic disease, with regular epidemic outbreaks. With the exception of Poland, European countries have replaced whole-cell vaccines (WCVs) by acellular vaccines (ACVs) in the 1990s. Worldwide, antigenic divergence in vaccine antigens has been found between vaccine strains and circulating strains. In this work, 466 Bordetella pertussis isolates collected in the period 1998-2012 from 13 European countries were characterised by multi-locus antigen sequence typing (MAST) of the pertussis toxin promoter (ptxP) and of the genes coding for proteins used in the ACVs: pertussis toxin (Ptx), pertactin (Prn), type 2 fimbriae (Fim2) and type 3 fimbriae (Fim3). Isolates were further characterised by fimbrial serotyping, multi-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). The results showed a very similar B. pertussis population for 12 countries using ACVs, while Poland, which uses a WCV, was quite distinct, suggesting that ACVs and WCVs select for different B. pertussis populations. This study forms a baseline for future studies on the effect of vaccination programmes on B. pertussis populations.

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Genetic VariationAntigens, BacterialBordetella pertussisElectrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-FieldEuropeHumansMinisatellite RepeatsMolecular EpidemiologyMultilocus Sequence TypingPertussis ToxinPromoter Regions, GeneticSerotypingWhooping CoughAntigens, BacterialPertussis Toxin

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PMID25527446
PMCPMC4365279
OpenAlexW2007788360

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