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Whooping cough

Nurse Prescribing, 2018
Whooping cough is highly contagious; it usually affects infants and young children although adults can sometimes develop the condition. The condition is caused by bacteria, Bordetella pertussis.
Debbie Duncan
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Finding the 'who' in whooping cough: vaccinated siblings are important pertussis sources in infants 6 months of age and under.

Communicable diseases intelligence quarterly report, 2014
OBJECTIVES To describe the epidemiology of pertussis, and to identify changes in the source of pertussis in infants 6 months of age and under, during the 2008-2012 epidemic in south metropolitan Perth. DESIGN AND SETTING Analysis of all pertussis cases
Christina Bertilone, Tania Wallace, L. Selvey   +2 more
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Epidemiology of whooping cough & typing of Bordetella pertussis.

Future Microbiology, 2013
Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative human-restricted bacterium that evolved from the broad-range mammalian pathogen, Bordetella bronchiseptica. It causes whooping cough or pertussis in humans, which is the most prevalent vaccine-preventable disease ...
N. Hégerlé, N. Guiso
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Whooping cough (pertussis)

Rapid Paediatrics and Child Health, 2013
Whooping cough (or pertussis) is a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Whooping cough can affect people of any age. For adolescents and adults, the infection may only cause a persistent cough.
Y. Morrissey
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Whooping Cough: The Visible Enemy.

Archivos de Bronconeumologia, 2021
F. González-Barcala, F. Villar-Álvarez, F. Martinón-Torres   +2 more
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Bacteriology of Whooping Cough.

Canadian Medical Association journal, 1927
In 1906, Bordet and Gengou 1 succeeded in cultivating Bacillus pertussis from cases of whooping cough. Since their pioneer discoveries, isolated reports of a few cases each have been published, but in this country routine cultures in cases of whooping ...
G. Lawson, M. Mueller
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EXPERIMENTAL WHOOPING COUGH

, 1929
Within two years after Bordet and Gengou1had grown their gram-negative, influenza-like bacillus on a special potato-blood-agar medium, Klimenko2claimed to have produced whooping cough easily in four monkeys and ninety-six puppies by inoculation and by ...
L. Sauer, L. Hambrecht
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TETANY AS A CAUSE OF CONVULSIONS IN WHOOPING COUGH

, 1925
The so-called nervous complications of whooping cough are well recognized; they generally have been attributed to asphyxia, cerebral edema or congestion, brain injury from hemorrhage, encephalitis or meningitis.
G. Powers
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WHOOPING COUGH: VACCINE THERAPY OR EARLY DIAGNOSIS

, 1928
Although whooping cough causes more deaths than do most of the other communicable diseases of childhood, it differs from them in that it is fatal only for the very young and that the immediate cause of death is nearly always a secondary infection. In the
L. Sauer, L. Hambrecht
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DOES ROENTGEN RAY MODIFY THE COURSE OF WHOOPING COUGH

, 1925
In a previous communication, one of us1expressed the opinion, based on a small series of cases, that the roentgen-ray treatment of whooping cough, as advocated by Bowditch and Leonard,2held promise of value.
H. Faber, Homer P. Struble
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