Sylvain Brisse 🇫🇷 - Understanding the Reemergence of Vaccine-Preventable Bacterial Infections

Sylvain Brisse reported on the return and spread of vaccine-preventable bacterial diseases such as diphtheria and whooping cough. Due to declining vaccination rates at the population level and unforeseen events such as refugee movements, previously marginalized childhood diseases are making a comeback. Here, too, genome-based analyses help to clarify epidemiological incidences and thus better understand them. In the case of whooping cough, associations can be made between different vaccine compositions (cellular / acellular vaccines) with their protective effect and the preferred spread of certain strain variants of the whooping cough pathogen Bordetella pertussis.
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