“…B. bronchiseptica GP1 was originally isolated from a guinea pig (Akerley et al, 1992). B. bronchiseptica BB1015 (Menozzi et al, 1991), RB50 (Cotter & Miller, 1994), NL1013, S87, 899L and NL1011 (Antoine & Locht, 1992) and B. pertussis BP536 (Relman et al, 1989), BPSM (Menozzi et al, 1994a), BPGR4 (∆fhaB) and BPEC (∆fhaC) (Gue! din et al, 1998) (Nordmann et al, 1992) and B. parapertussis 8234 was a gift from E. Hewlett, University of Virginia.…”