Study on the skin test of whooping cough. III.

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

Whooping cough in school age children with persistent cough: prospective cohort study in primary care.

OBJECTIVE To estimate the proportion of school age children with a persistent cough who have evidence of a recent Bordetella pertussis infection. DESIGN Prospective cohort study (October 2001 to March 2005). SETTING General practices in Oxfordshire, England. PARTICIPANTS 172 children aged 5-16 years who presented to their general practitioner with a cough lasting 14 days or more who conse...

BMJ B Brueggemann , Richard

Objective To estimate the proportion of school age children with a persistent cough who have evidence of a recent Bordetella pertussis infection. Design Prospective cohort study (October 2001 to March 2005). Setting General practices in Oxfordshire, England. Participants 172 children aged 5-16 years who presented to their general practitioner with a cough lasting 14 days or more who consented t...

Attack rates of notified whooping cough in immunised and unimmunised children.

The incidence of whooping cough among immunised children under the age of six and among children of the same age who were not fully immunised was ascertained by analysing whooping-cough notifications from several health authorities. In the first three years of the study the results showed that attack rates were much higher in children who were not fully immunised than in those who were. This fi...

Lung function in adolescents after uncomplicated whooping cough in childhood.

Ventilatory function (forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in one second, forced expiratory flows), static lung volumes, phase III slope and closing volume (single-breath nitrogen washout test) were measured in 499 children and adolescents aged 10-16 yrs from a general population sample in North-East France. A history of whooping cough was given by 44 children (22 of each sex); their...