Neutrophils are innate immune cells that play an essential role during the clearance of
pathogens that can release chromatin structures coated by several cytoplasmatic and …

The havoc unleashed by COVID-19 pandemic has paved way for secondary ominous fungal
infections like Mucormycosis. It is caused by a class of opportunistic pathogens from the …

As with other pathogens, competitive interactions between Bordetella pertussis strains drive
infection risk. Vaccines are thought to perturb strain diversity through shifts in immune …

After the pertussis vaccine had been introduced in the 1940s and was shown to be very
successful in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with the disease, the possibility …

Pathogen adaptation to public health interventions such as vaccination may take tortuous
routes and involve multiple mutations at different locations in the pathogen genome, acting …

Pertussis is a vaccine-preventable disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis.
Over the past years, the incidence and mortality of pertussis increased significantly. A …

Objective To analyse macrolide resistance and molecular characteristics of Bordetella
pertussis clinical isolates from western China, and to explore the relationship between …

Bordetella pertussis is the causative agent of whooping cough, a highly contagious
respiratory disease. Pertussis toxin (PT), a major virulence factor secreted by B. pertussis, is …

Background Previous limited studies have identified that Bordetella pertussis (B. pertussis)
isolates circulating in China possess distinct molecular features and high rates of …

We described the population structure of Bordetella pertussis (B. pertussis) in Norway from
1996 to 2019 and determined if there were evolutionary shifts and whether these correlated …