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- Title
Transmission of Bordetella holmesii during pertussis outbreak, Japan.
- Authors
Kamiya, Hajime; Otsuka, Nao; Ando, Yuka; Odaira, Fumito; Yoshino, Shuji; Kawano, Kimiko; Takahashi, Hirokazu; Nishida, Toshihide; Hidaka, Yoshio; Toyoizumi-Ajisaka, Hiromi; Shibayama, Keigo; Kamachi, Kazunari; Sunagawa, Tomimasa; Taniguchi, Kiyosu; Okabe, Nobuhiko
- 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
1080-6059
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1807.120130