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Case Reports
. 2009 Jan;15(1):72-4.
doi: 10.3201/eid1501.071677.

Isolation of Bordetella avium and novel Bordetella strain from patients with respiratory disease

Amanda T Harrington  1 , Jaime A Castellanos, Tomasz M Ziedalski, Jill E Clarridge 3rd, Brad T Cookson
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Isolation of Bordetella avium and novel Bordetella strain from patients with respiratory disease

Amanda T Harrington et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Jan.

Abstract

Bordetella avium is thought to be strictly an avian pathogen. However, 16S rRNA gene sequencing identified 2 isolates from 2 humans with respiratory disease as B. avium and a novel B. avium-like strain. Thus, B. avium and B. avium-like organisms are rare opportunistic human pathogens.

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16S rRNA dendrogram. Phylogenetic tree of relationships among Bordetella spp. inferred on the basis of aligned 16S rRNA gene sequences from type strains (first 500 bp); a neighbor-joining algorithm with Achromobacter xylosoxidans xylosoxidans is used as an outgroup. B. avium, ATCC35086; B. bronchiseptica, ATCC19395; B. hinzii, ATCC51783; B. holmseii, ATCC51541; B. parapertussis, ATCC15311; B. pertussis, ATCC9340; B. trematum, DSM11334. Scale bar indicates percentage genetic distance.
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