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Pertussis — An update for general practice

South African Family Practice, 2006
Although there has been a global decline in the incidence of pertussis in the past four decades, the incidence has increased in developed countries, particularly in preteens, adolescents and adults.
A. Madide, M. Cotton
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Patterns of Susceptibility in an Outbreak of Bordetella pertussis: Evidence from a Community-Based Study

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2002
OBJECTIVE: To describe an outbreak of Bordetella pertussis and to assess which factors were associated with the development of clinical pertussis in children and adults during the outbreak.
David M Moore, Richard G Mathias
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Construction of Minitransposons for Constitutive and Inducible Expression of Pertussis Toxin in Bvg-Negative Bordetella-Bronchiseptica [PDF]

, 1991
Appropriately detoxified pertussis toxin (PT) of Bordetella pertussis is considered to be an essential component of new-generation whooping cough vaccines, but the development of a procedure to obtain high levels of purified toxin has been and continues ...
Rohde, Manfred, Timmis, Kenneth N., Walker, Mark J., Wehland, Jurgen   +3 more
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Bordetella pertussis [PDF]

Revista chilena de infectología, 2008
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Addressing the consequences of missing vaccines: A case report of pertussis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports
Pertussis, caused primarily by Bordetella pertussis and occasionally by Bordetella parapertussis, remains a major public health issue despite widespread vaccination efforts. Immunocompromised children, such as those with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, are
Diana Marcela Perea Rojas, Indiana Luz Rojas Torres, Luis Enrique Perea Vásquez   +2 more
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Pertussis Infection in Fully Vaccinated Children in Day-Care Centers, Israel

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2000
We tested 46 fully vaccinated children in two day-care centers in Israel who were exposed to a fatal case of pertussis infection. Only two of five children who tested positive for Bordetella pertussis met the World Health Organization's case definition ...
Isaac Srugo, Daniel Benilevi, Ralph Madeb, Sara Shapiro, Tamy Shohat, Eli Somekh, Yossi Rimmar, Vladimir Gershtein, Rosa Gershtein, Esther Marva, Nitza Lahat   +10 more
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Recent advances and challenges in antigen engineering & vaccine development [PDF]

, 2014
textVaccines play a vital role in public health by preventing infectious disease across the globe. Vaccine formulations represent a weakened form of a microbe or toxin that is injected into the human body to elicit an immune response, generating ...
Kornahrens, William Joseph
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The respiratory pathology in infants with sudden unexpected deaths in whom respiratory specimens were initially PCR-positive or PCR-negative for Bordetella pertussis [PDF]

, 2018
Background: In a previous controlled study, we investigated the relationship between Bordetella pertussis infections and sudden unexpected deaths among German infants (sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS).
Cherry, J., Greer, P., Heininger, U., Paddock, C.   +3 more
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Tosse convulsa em Portugal: análise retrospetiva de casos clínicos suspeitos de infeção por Bordetella pertussis no período 2010-2014 [PDF]

, 2015
Objetivo: Analisar retrospetivamente os resultados laboratoriais dos casos clínicos suspeitos de tosse convulsa enviados ao Laboratório Nacional de Referência de Bordetella pertussis do INSA no Porto para confirmação laboratorial no período 2010-2014 ...
Furtado, Cristina, Pereira, Brigida, Santos, Maria Augusta   +2 more
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Competition, coinfection and strain replacement in models of Bordetella Pertussis [PDF]

, 2015
Ayabina, D, Colijn, C, Nicoli, E, Trotter, C, Turner, K   +4 more
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