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Bordetella holmesii in Nasopharyngeal Samples from Chilean Patients with Suspected Bordetella pertussis Infection

2012; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 50; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1128/jcm.06747-11

1098-660X

Carolina Miranda, Lorena Porte, Patricia García,

Streptococcal Infections and Treatments

We read the article of Njamkepo et al. ([5][1]) with great interest. These authors report the finding of Bordetella holmesii DNA in 177 IS 481 -positive nasopharyngeal samples from French patients with suspected pertussis. They performed 4 Bordetella species-specific “in-house” real-time PCRs on