No innocent bystanders: pertussis vaccination epitomizes evolutionary parallelisms between Bordetella parapertussis and B. pertussis
Valérie Bouchez, ALBERT J. MORENO, Alba Mir-Cros, Annie Landier, Nathalie Armatys, Sophie Guillot, María Teresa Martín-Gómez, Carla Rodrigues, Julie Toubiana, Ana I. Bento, Michael R. Weigand, Juan José González‐López, Sylvain Brisse
This paper shows that Bordetella parapertussis evolved similarly to Bordetella pertussis after pertussis vaccination, including loss of pertactin and changes in regulatory regions.
Microbial Genomics · Nov 14, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology