Correlation of Real Time PCR Cycle Threshold Cut-Off with Bordetella pertussis Clinical Severity

• Shelly Bolotin,

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Shelley L. Deeks,

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Alex Marchand-Austin,

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Heather Rilkoff,

  Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Vica Dang,

  Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Ryan Walton,

  Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Ahmed Hashim,

  Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• David Farrell,

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Natasha S. Crowcroft

  * E-mail: natasha.crowcroft@oahpp.ca

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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