Comparative genomics of prevaccination and modern Bordetella pertussis strains

Marieke J Bart, Marjolein van Gent, Han GJ van der Heide, Jos Boekhorst, Peter W. M. Hermans, Julian Parkhill, Frits R. Mooi

BMC Genomics · 2010 · 93 citations · 50 references

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Abstract

Our work suggests that B. pertussis adapted by successive accumulation of SNPs and by gene (in)activation. In particular changes in gene regulation may have played a role in adaptation.

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