Volume 32, Number 10—October 2026
Dispatch
Emergence of Macrolide-Resistant Bordetella pertussis, Peru, 2025
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Figure 2. Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree of Bordetella pertussis isolates on the basis of genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism analysis, showing macrolide-resistant isolates from Peru within the emerging MR-MT28 lineage (red text) among globally distributed strains. Tohama I (NC_002929) was used as the reference genome. PRN, pertactin.
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