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- Title
Transmission of Bordetella holmesii during pertussis outbreak, Japan.
- Authors
Kamiya H; Otsuka N; Ando Y; Odaira F; Yoshino S; Kawano K; Takahashi H; Nishida T; Hidaka Y; Toyoizumi-Ajisaka H; Shibayama K; Kamachi K; Sunagawa T; Taniguchi K; Okabe N; Kamiya, Hajime; Otsuka, Nao; Ando, Yuka; Odaira, Fumito; Yoshino, Shuji
- Abstract
We describe the epidemiology of a pertussis outbreak in Japan in 2010-2011 and Bordetella holmesii transmission. Six patients were infected; 4 patients were students and a teacher at the same junior high school. Epidemiologic links were found between 5 patients. B. holmesii may have been transmitted from person to person.
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012, Vol 18, Issue 7, p1166
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1807.120130