Do Pertussis Vaccines Protect Against Bordetella parapertussis?

Bordetella pertussis and pertussis vaccines.

Bordetella pertussis is a human-specific pathogen that causes whooping cough. The use of pertussis whole-cell vaccines in infants and toddlers led to decreased circulation of the bacterium in the child population and a marked decrease in the incidence of the disease. However, vaccine does not result in life-long immunity; indeed, the circulation of the bacterium has not been controlled in the a...

Reciprocal protective immunity against Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis in a murine model of respiratory infection.

The protective immunity induced by infection with Bordetella pertussis and with Bordetella parapertussis was examined in a murine model of respiratory infection. Convalescent mice that had been infected by aerosol with B. pertussis or with B. parapertussis exhibited a protective immune response against B. pertussis and also against B. parapertussis. Anti-filamentous hemagglutinin (anti-FHA) ser...

Bordetella pertussis polymorphism and pertussis vaccines.

The topic of the article by Bottero et al. (1) is an important one, a bacterial vaccine for a preventable disease, pertussis. Many articles have been published on the subject in the last 10 years (for a review, see reference 6). In their study, Bottero et al. neither followed the recommendations of consensus meetings nor used published nomenclature. Furthermore, they compared vaccines that cann...

Infection with Bordetella parapertussis but not Bordetella pertussis causes pertussis-like disease in older pigs.

The 3 major Bordetella species--namely, B. pertussis, B. parapertussis, and B. bronchiseptica--can be distinguished by their different host ranges. B. bronchiseptica infects a wide range of mammals (including humans), whereas B. pertussis infects only humans and, under experimental conditions, mice and pigs. In contrast, B. parapertussis, also a causative agent of pertussis, displays a unique h...

Selective medium for the isolation of bordetella pertussis and parapertussis.