Impact of whooping cough on patients and their families.

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

Impact of vaccination on epidemiology of diphtheria and pertussis

Whooping cough and diphtheria are vaccine preventable diseases. Diphtheria, due to Corynebacterium diphtheriae or Corynebactium ulcerans, two Gram positive bacteria, is a serious upper respiratory tract disease with high morbidity and mortality rates. Vaccination, via an acellular vaccine composed only of purified, detoxified diphtheria toxin, has significantly reduced the incidence of the dise...

Whooping cough in adults.

During the 1970s whooping cough returned in Sweden after an absence of more than 10 years and is now seen in all age groups, During a three-year period 174 adults with culture-verified whooping cough were identified in Gothenburg. Most of the patients had typical symptoms with whooping attacks and often vomiting. The disease was long lasting but complications were rare. Physicians should be awa...

Epidemiologic Studies in Whooping Cough *

The following procedures were employed in the three studies: (I ) Cases of diagnosed or suspected whooping cough reported by the New Haven Hospital Dispensary or, occasionally, by the local health department or by practitioners were investigated. (2) The families of the diagnosed cases were seen and cough-plates were made from each member of the family. (3) Answers to specific questions pertain...

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...