Pertussis vaccination and pseudo whooping cough.

Vaccination and Whooping Cough

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?In the Medical Annual for 1931 it is stated that the paroxyms of whooping cough can be arrested by vaccination against small-pox, but since this method of treatment was recommended in the early part of the present century, it cannot be claimed as something new, but only as something forgotten and revived. Vaccination was recommended as a method of...

What is pertussis (whooping cough)?

Whooping - cough vaccination

which Dr Coope and her colleagues based their statistics are not available and may, in fact, not differ markedly from the range of normal for their laboratory. For example, although they comment on raised levels of factor X, there is no significant difference in this parameter between their oestrogentreated and placebo groups. The thromboelastogram also showed no significant change. The clinica...

Whooping cough after stopping pertussis immunisation.

An epidemic of whooping cough occurred in a rural practice in Shetland, containing 144 children under 16. Before July 1974 all children were immunised against pertussis, but after that date immunisation was stopped. Of the 134 children studied, 93 had been immunised. Sixty-five of the children developed whooping cough. The incidence of infection was similar in those who had and had not been imm...

Preparation and Evaluation of Stained Pertussis Antigen for Serodiagnosis of Whooping Cough