Summary 1. Direct smear of nasal mucus has revealed gram-negative bacilli in 80 per cent of patients with known whooping cough as compared to 12 per cent in cases not suffering from whooping cough. 2. Cough plate cultures (taken in triplicate) were positive for Hemophilus pertussis in 55 ...
First described in the sixteenth century, whooping cough or pertussis is a relatively recent disease in human history, although some of the cough syndromes described in antiquity may in fact be pertussis-like diseases. Whooping cough caused by the gram-n
Pertussis (Whooping Cough) 百日咳是一种高度传染性疾病,主要发生在儿童和青少年中,由革兰氏阴性菌 Bordetella pertussis引起.症状最初是非特异性上呼吸道感染,然后是阵发性或痉挛性咳嗽,通常以长时间的、尖锐的、鸣叫声收尾。开始表现为非特异性上呼吸道感染,接着出现...
Pertussis: the disease and new diagnostic methods. Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough, produces an acute and chronic respiratory infection in infants and young children. B. pertussis is still a major health problem of young children throughout the world even thou... RL ...
The classic clinical features of whooping cough, such as an inspiratory "whoop" (listen on bmj.com), may be attenuated in older children and adults who have been immunised.1 Moreover, many doctors may not be aware that there is a simple diagnostic serological test.How common is it?Whooping...
This term was substituted for the common terminology, whooping cough, when it was widely recognized that a whoop is not present in all cases of pertussis. With the more recent recognition that not all infections are associated with intensive cough, it is apparent that the term "pertussis"does ...
diagnostic techniqueserythrocyteshuman diseasesinfectionsThis is a useful account of the laboratory methods used in the diagnosis of whooping-cough, giving details of their technique and the results obtained in an adequate series of cases. The frequency of positive findings at various stages of the ...
Doctors can test patients with symptoms using a swab pushed deep into the nose. Those tests are most accurate when done within the first three weeks of the cough, the CDC says. "In the setting of waning immunity and we are seeing more and older individuals and oftentimes I'll hear from ...
The 11-year-olds, Ileyna and Flori, caught whooping cough in July while away at summer camp. They came home with very bad coughs, which at first were thought to be bronchitis but were later determined to be pertussis after an astute health professional decided to run one more test. ...
We aimed to test this hypothesis. N Raoof,S Pereira,S Dai,... - 《Archives of Disease in Childhood》 被引量: 0发表: 2017年 [Diagnostic image (136). A boy with coughing fits and subconjunctival hemorrhage. Subconjunctival hemorrhage secondary to whooping cough] An 8-year-old boy suffered...