Pertussis or whooping cough has persisted and resurged in the face of vaccination and has
become one of the most prevalent vaccine-preventable diseases in Western countries. The …

Before childhood vaccination was introduced in the 1950s, pertussis or whooping cough
was a major cause of infant death worldwide. Widespread vaccination of children was …

Despite high vaccine coverage, the incidence of pertussis is increasing in a number of
countries. Particularly alarming is the increase of pertussis in infants too young to be (fully) …

The polymorphic X-region of the protein A gene (spa) was used for molecular typing of
methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains. The X-region is characterized by a …

Before childhood vaccination was introduced in the 1940s, pertussis was a major cause of
infant death worldwide. Widespread vaccination of children succeeded in reducing illness …

The Bordetella pertussis proteins P.69 (also designated pertactin) and pertussis toxin are
important virulence factors and have been shown to confer protective immunity in animals and …

Bordetella pertussis, B. bronchiseptica, B. parapertussis hu , and B. parapertussis ov are
closely related respiratory pathogens that infect mammalian species. B. pertussis and B. …

… Van der Zee A, Vernooij S, Peeters M, van Embden JDA, Mooi FR. Dynamics of the …
Van Loo IHM, van der Heide HGJ, Nagelkerke NJD, Verhoef J, Mooi FR. Temporal trends in …

Background. We conducted a population-based, nation-wide, prospective study to identify
who introduced pertussis into the household of infants aged ⩽6 months admitted to the …

Only Vibrio cholerae strains of serotype O1 are known to cause epidemics, while non‐O1
strains are associated with sporadic cases of cholera. It was therefore unexpected that the …