Bordetella pertussis in children hospitalized with a respiratory infection: clinical characteristics and pathogen detection in household contacts

OBJECTIVE: Describe the prevalence of Bordetella pertussis via PCR in children under 5 years old hospitalized as probable cases of pertussis and report the most common clinical features among them. RESULTS: A positive PCR result for B. pertussis was observed in 20.5% of our samples (18/88), one-thir...

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Autores principales: del Valle-Mendoza, Juana, Silva-Caso, Wilmer, Aguilar-Luis, Miguel Angel, del Valle-Vargas, Cristina, Cieza-Mora, Erico, Martins-Luna, Johanna, Aquino-Ortega, Ronald, Silva-Vásquez, Andrea, Bazán-Mayra, Jorge, Weilg, Pablo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5960213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29776433
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3405-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5960213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29776433
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3405-7

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