A summer pertussis pseudo-outbreak, multifactorial in cause, likely occurred.
Recommendations beyond standard practice were made to providers on specimen collection and environmental cleaning, and to laboratories on standardizing PCR protocols and reporting results, to minimize false-positive results from contaminated clinical specimens.
2012-02-03
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Pediatrics
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA. smandal1 [at] c
Pediatrics. 2012 Feb;129(2):e424-30
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