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Complete genome sequence of Bordetella pertussis CS, a Chinese pertussis vaccine strain
Shumin Zhang1, Yinghua Xu, Zhemin Zhou
1National Institute for the Control of Pharmaceutical and Biological Products, Temple of Heaven, Beijing 100050, People's Republic of China.
Journal of Bacteriology
|May 31, 2011
Abstract:
Bordetella pertussis is the causative agent of pertussis. Here, we report the genome sequence of Bordetella pertussis strain CS, isolated from an infant patient in Beijing and widely used as a vaccine strain for production of an acellular pertussis vaccine in China.
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