Epidemiology and characterization of Bordetella parapertussis strains isolated between 1995 and 2002 in and around Warsaw, Poland
- 1 June 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 23 (6), 499-501
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-004-1141-5
Abstract
The aim of the study presented here was to analyze parapertussis infections occurring in the region of Warsaw, Poland, between 1995 and 2002 and to characterize the Bordetella parapertussis isolates using macrorestriction digestion of genomic DNA. Fourteen of the 17 patients with confirmed Bordetella parapertussis infection were between the ages of 5 and 9 years, and 14 had documented vaccination with the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis whole-cell vaccine; for the remaining three patients vaccination data was not available. DNA fingerprinting performed using recommended standard methodology revealed a close relationship between the examined strains and reference strain ATCC 9305, thus confirming the conservative nature of Bordetella parapertussis.Keywords
This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
- PFGE and pertactin gene sequencing suggest limited genetic variability within the Finnish Bordetella parapertussis populationJournal of Medical Microbiology, 2003
- Clinical and epidemiological picture of B pertussis and B parapertussis infections after introduction of acellular pertussis vaccinesArchives of Disease in Childhood, 2003
- Comparison of the Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis Isolates Circulating in Saint Petersburg between 1998 and 2000 with Russian Vaccine StrainsJournal of Clinical Microbiology, 2003
- Epidemiological Typing of Bordetella pertussis Isolates: Recommendations for a Standard MethodologyEuropean Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2000
- Human but not ovine isolates ofBordetella parapertussis are highly clonal as determined by PCR-based RAPD fingerpringtingInfection, 1998
- Whooping Cough Caused by Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis in an Immunized PopulationJAMA, 1998
- Epidemiology of pertussis in French hospitals in 1993 and 1994: thirty years after a routine use of vaccinationThe Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 1998
- Pertussis notifications in Australia, 1991 to 1997.1997
- Typing of sequential bacterial isolates by pulsed-field gel electrophoresisDiagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 1995
- Return of epidemic pertussis in the United StatesThe Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 1994