Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
Whooping Cough
... A BSTRACT : Pertussis or whooping cough is a highly contagious infection of the respiratory tract caused by the bacterium albordtella pertussis. It’s a disease that could affects human at all his stages of ...
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Genome Structural Diversity among 31 Bordetella pertussis Isolates from Two Recent U.S. Whooping Cough Statewide Epidemics
... B ordetella pertussis is the causative agent of whooping cough (pertussis), a respira- tory disease affecting all age groups, but with the highest disease severity in unvaccinated infants. Whole-cell ...
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Proficiency Program for Real Time PCR Diagnosis of Bordetella pertussis Infections in French Hospital Laboratories and at the French National Reference Center for Whooping Cough and other Bordetelloses
... for whooping cough diagnosis is well established, but until recently, no validated commercial kits were available and each microbiological lab- oratory therefore had to develop its own ...
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The Treatment of Whooping Cough in Eighteenth Century England
... for whooping cough was common in the eighteenth ...for whooping cough, or to put the child into a ‘sudden ...concerning whooping cough were largely purgative, with purging and ...
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Prevalence and Genotype Distribution of Pneumocystis jirovecii in Cuban Infants and Toddlers with Whooping Cough
... This study describes the prevalence and genotype distribution of Pneumocystis jirovecii obtained from nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs from immunocompetent Cuban infants and toddlers with whooping cough (WC). A ...
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Whooping cough dynamics in Chile (1932–2010): disease temporal fluctuations across a north south gradient
... annual whooping cough mandatory notifica- tions from the National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Department of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health, Chile) and from Epidemiological Statistics Yearbooks ...
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Seroprevalence study of Whooping Cough by Elisa IgM in Morocco between 2008-2012
... of Whooping Cough, received Medical Bacteriology Department at the National Institute of Hygiene in Rabat from four Moroccan ...of Whooping Cough, 28 cases (58%) were positives, 10 cases (21%) ...
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Specific immunoglobulin A to Bordetella pertussis antigens in mucosal secretion for rapid diagnosis of whooping cough
... The results indicate that determination of specific IgA to PT and FHA in NPH aspirates represents a sensitive and rapid diagnostic method for the detection of pertussis.... GRANSTROM ET [r] ...
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Subclass compositions of immunoglobulin G to pertussis toxin in patients with whooping cough, in healthy individuals, and in recipients of a pertussis toxoid vaccine
... The subclass composition of serum immunoglobulin G IgG antibodies against pertussis toxin was studied in 108 serum samples obtained during various stages of disease from 75 patients with[r] ...
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Use of pulsed field gel electrophoresis for epidemiological study of Bordetella pertussis in a whooping cough outbreak
... We used pulsed-field gel electrophoresis PFGE of chromosomal DNA digested with XbaI to determine the distribution of different BordeteUa pertussis strains from clinical isolates obtained[r] ...
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Acellular pertussis vaccine efficacy: An updated systematic review and meta –analysis
... definition whooping cough is a disease with 21 days long lasting continues coughs by Bordetella pertussis which has been proved with positive cell culture, posi- tive serological tests or having contact ...
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Use of Bispecific Antibodies in Molecular Velcro Assays Whose Specificity Approaches the Theoretical Limit of Immunodetection for Bordetella pertussis
... Proper identification of bacteria in patients with suspected cases of whooping cough usually requires that clinical naso- pharyngeal swab or nasopharyngeal aspirate samples be culti- vated for 3 to 7 days ...
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Use of a Chinese hamster ovary cell cytotoxicity assay for the rapid diagnosis of pertussis
... Whooping cough diagnosis: a clinical evaluation ofcomplementing culture and immunofluorescence with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay of pertussis immunoglobulin A in nasopharyngeal secr[r] ...
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The efficacy of QingfengGanke granule in treating postinfectious cough in pathogenic wind invading lungs syndrome: a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
... and cough hyper-responsiveness are involved ...or whooping cough has prompted wide pub- lic and clinical concerns over the last 20 years ...with cough duration of 2 weeks or more show evidence ...
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Erythromycin Prophylaxis for Pertussis
... oped symptoms of whooping cough, while only one of six infected staff who received ervthro-. mycin prophylaxis developed this disease[r] ...
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Guest Editorial: Immunisation: A Public Health success
... (whooping cough), and poliomyelitis in the 1950s, and measles, mumps and rubella in the 1960s—deaths in Australia from these vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) have declined by more than 99 per cent, ...
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Evaluation of serologic assays for diagnosis of whooping cough
... The combination of this favorable bias introduced by the reference method, the slow, primary antibody responses of unimmunized children, and the sampling of convalescentphase sera takeni[r] ...
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Analysis with a Combination of Macrorestriction Endonucleases Reveals a High Degree of Polymorphism among Bordetella pertussis Isolates in Eastern France
... with whooping cough in a small village detected over a 3-month interval, two clonal XbaI profiles were ob- served, and further examination of the SpeI fingerprints im- proved the ability to discriminate ...
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