High prevalence of currently circulating Bordetella pertussis isolates not producing vaccine antigen pertactin in Slovenia

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2019 Feb;25(2):258-260. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.10.005. Epub 2018 Oct 26.

Authors

T Kastrin¹, A-M Barkoff², M Paragi¹, M G Vitek³, J Mertsola², Q He⁴

Affiliations

¹ National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food, Department for Public Health Microbiology, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
² Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
³ Communicable Diseases Centre, National Institute of Public Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
⁴ Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; Department of Medical Microbiology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 30691616
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.10.005

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Antigens, Bacterial / blood*
Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / analysis*
Bordetella pertussis / immunology
Bordetella pertussis / isolation & purification*
Child
Child, Preschool
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Fimbriae Proteins / blood
Hemagglutinins / blood
Humans
Infant
Middle Aged
Pertussis Toxin / blood
Pertussis Vaccine / immunology*
Pertussis Vaccine / therapeutic use
Prevalence
Retrospective Studies
Slovenia / epidemiology
Virulence Factors, Bordetella / analysis*
Whooping Cough / epidemiology*
Young Adult

Substances

Antigens, Bacterial
Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
Hemagglutinins
Pertussis Vaccine
Virulence Factors, Bordetella
Fimbriae Proteins
pertactin
Pertussis Toxin