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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...
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 |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2018
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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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