Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2012)

Transmission of Bordetella holmesii during Pertussis Outbreak, Japan

  • Hajime Kamiya,
  • Nao Otsuka,
  • Yuka Ando,
  • Fumito Odaira,
  • Shuji Yoshino,
  • Kimiko Kawano,
  • Hirokazu Takahashi,
  • Toshihide Nishida,
  • Yoshio Hidaka,
  • Hiromi Toyoizumi-Ajisaka,
  • Keigo Shibayama,
  • Kazunari Kamachi,
  • Tomimasa Sunagawa,
  • Kiyosu Taniguchi,
  • Nobuhiko Okabe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1807.120130
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 7
pp. 1166 – 1169

Abstract

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We describe the epidemiology of a pertussis outbreak in Japan in 2010–2011 and Bordetella holmesii transmission. Six patients were infected; 4 patients were students and a teacher at the same junior high school. Epidemiologic links were found between 5 patients. B. holmesii may have been transmitted from person to person.

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