Whooping cough – (pertussis) is an acute infectious disease accompanied by inflammation in the upper respiratory tracts and paroxysmal spasmodic cough. Among the most frequently infected are unvaccinated children under the age of 5. But infants are even more frequently affected by such a disease. T...
Whooping cough (pertussis) is a very contagious respiratory disease caused by the bacteriaBordetella pertussis. When this bacteria infects the linings of the lungs, it causes significant inflammation and swollen airways. The result is intense, uncontrollable coughing. While thewhooping cough vaccinehas ...
Pertussis, or whooping cough, is an infection of the nose, throat, and lungs. Your child's air passages narrow and get plugged with thick mucus. This may cause him or her to have coughing spells. Anyone can have pertussis, but it is most serious in babies and young children. A baby ...
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New pertussis vaccination approaches: en route to protect newborns? Pertussis or whooping cough is a life-threatening childhood disease, particularly severe during the first months of life, although adolescent and adult per... L Camille,M Nathalie - 《Fems Immunol Med Microbiol》 被引量: 52发表:...
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Despite improved vaccination rates in the U.S., pertussis infection rates have risen steadily since the early 1980s with epidemic peaks every 3 to 5 years. Although the disease is most common in children under the age of 1 year, there has been a substantial increase in infection recognized ...
germs that have these antibodies. Once the infection is gone, some of the immune cells that were exposed to the antigen become memory immune cells. In the future if the same type of germ infects your body again the memory immune cells will be ready to destroy it so you don't get sick...
Question: What is a set of criteria used to establish that a particular infectious agent causes a disease called? Cause of Disease: During the late 1800s scientists were beginning to understand the cause of disease, and be able to determine that diseases ...
What is new in pertussis? Despite high vaccination coverage, over the last fifteen years there has been a worldwide resurgence of B. pertussis infection. While classical pertussis i... ES Bamberger,I Srugo - 《European Journal of Pediatrics》 被引量: 207发表: 2008年 The challenges of ...