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Volume 20, Number 6—June 2014
Research

Oral Fluid Testing for Pertussis, England and Wales, June 2007–August 2009

Helen CampbellComments to Author , Gayatri Amirthalingam, Norman K. Fry, David Litt, Timothy G. Harrison, Karen Wagner, Natasha S. Crowcroft, and Elizabeth Miller
Author affiliations: Public Health England, Colindale, London, UK (H. Campbell, G. Amirthalingam, N.K. Fry, D. Litt, T.G. Harrison, K. Wagner, E. Miller); Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (N.S. Crowcroft)

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Rates of pertussis notification and laboratory confirmation (no. cases/100,000 population), by test method, England and Wales, 1998–2009. When >1 test method was used, culture takes precedence over PCR, which takes precedence over serology, which takes precedence over oral fluid (e.g., a case confirmed by culture and serologic testing is listed under culture).

Figure 2. Rates of pertussis notification and laboratory confirmation (nocases/100,000 population), by test method, England and Wales, 1998–2009When >1 test method was used, culture takes precedence over PCR, which takes precedence over serology, which takes precedence over oral fluid (e.g., a case confirmed by culture and serologic testing is listed under culture).

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