The genus Bordetella contains several pathogenic§species generally associated with upper respiratory§tract infections in warm-blooded animals. Bordetella§pertussis is the etiologic agent of whooping cough.§Whooping cough is presently one of the ten most§common causes of death from infectious diseases and§reported by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to§cause 50 million cases and 350000 deaths worldwide§per year.§The term proteome, in analogy to the term genome, was§coined to describe the complete set of proteins that§an organism has produced under a defined set of§conditions....