TY - JOUR AU - Kurniawan, Jacob AU - Maharjan, Ram P. AU - Chan, Wai-Fong AU - Reeves, Peter R. AU - Sintchenko, Vitali AU - Gilbert, Gwendolyn L. AU - Mooi, Frits R. AU - Lan, Ruiting T1 - Bordetella pertussis Clones Identified by Multilocus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 2 SP - 297 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) of 316 Bordetella pertussis isolates collected over 40 years from Australia and 3 other continents identified 66 MLVA types (MTs), including 6 predominant MTs. Typing of genes encoding acellular vaccine antigens showed changes that may be vaccine driven in 2 MTs prevalent in Australia. KW - multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis KW - acellular vaccine antigenic variation KW - Bordetella pertussis KW - global epidemiology KW - bacteria KW - dispatch KW - Australia KW - Canada KW - Japan KW - Finland KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1602.081707 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/2/08-1707_article ER - End of Reference