Improving specificity of Bordetella pertussis detection using a four target real-time PCR

• Helena Martini ,

  * E-mail: helena.martini@uzbrussel.be

  Affiliation Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), Department of Microbiology and Infection Control and Belgian National Reference Centre for Bordetella Pertussis, Brussels, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5877-9948

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• Liselot Detemmerman,

  Current address: LaCAR MDx Technologies, Liège, Belgium

  Affiliation Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), Department of Microbiology and Infection Control and Belgian National Reference Centre for Bordetella Pertussis, Brussels, Belgium

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• Oriane Soetens,

  Affiliation Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), Department of Microbiology and Infection Control and Belgian National Reference Centre for Bordetella Pertussis, Brussels, Belgium

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• Erlangga Yusuf,

  Current address: Department of Medical Microbiology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, University of Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium

  Affiliation Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), Department of Microbiology and Infection Control and Belgian National Reference Centre for Bordetella Pertussis, Brussels, Belgium

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• Denis Piérard

  Affiliation Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel), Department of Microbiology and Infection Control and Belgian National Reference Centre for Bordetella Pertussis, Brussels, Belgium

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