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Volume 30, Number 11—November 2024
Research Letter

Prevalence of Pertactin-Deficient Bordetella pertussis Isolates, Slovenia

Alex-Mikael Barkoff1, Tamara Kastrin1, Katja Seme, Marta Grgič Vitek, Jussi Mertsola, and Qiushui HeComments to Author 
Author affiliation: National Reference Laboratory for Pertussis and Diphtheria, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland (A.-M. Barkoff, J. Mertsola, Q. He); InFLAMES Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku (A.-M. Barkoff, J. Mertsola, Q. He); National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food Department for Public Health Microbiology, Ljubljana, Slovenia (T. Kastrin); Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (K. Seme); Communicable Diseases Centre, National Institute of Public Health, Ljubljana (M. Grgič Vitek)

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Number of PRN-deficient isolates and frequency of fimbrial serotypes in a study of pertactin-deficient Bordetella pertussis isolates, Slovenia, 2002–2020. Vaccines in yellow boxes are those used for primary vaccination; those in the white box are used for booster vaccination. ACV, acellular pertussis vaccine; ACV PRN, ACV containing pertactin; ACV ∆PRN, ACV without pertactin; Fim, fimbriae; PRN, pertactin.

Figure. Number of PRN-deficient isolates and frequency of fimbrial serotypes in a study of pertactin-deficient Bordetella pertussis isolates, Slovenia, 2002–2020. Vaccines in yellow boxes are those used for primary vaccination; those in the white box are used for booster vaccination. ACV, acellular pertussis vaccine; ACV PRN, ACV containing pertactin; ACV ∆PRN, ACV without pertactin; Fim, fimbriae; PRN, pertactin.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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