SNP-Based Typing: A Useful Tool to Study Bordetella pertussis Populations

• Marjolein van Gent ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marjolein van Gent, Marieke J. Bart

  Affiliation Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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• Marieke J. Bart ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marjolein van Gent, Marieke J. Bart

  Affiliation Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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• Han G. J. van der Heide,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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• Kees J. Heuvelman,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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• Teemu Kallonen,

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Turku, Finland, Turku Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

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• Qiushui He,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Turku, Finland

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• Jussi Mertsola,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Turku, Finland

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• Abdolreza Advani,

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

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• Hans O. Hallander,

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

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• Koen Janssens,

  Affiliation Applied Maths NV, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

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• Peter W. Hermans,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Frits R. Mooi

  * E-mail: frits.mooi@rivm.nl

  Affiliation Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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