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Cases of whooping cough are surging across the country. Doctors share symptoms, how to prevent pertussis, vaccination information, and treatments amid outbreak.
Whooping cough (/ ˈ h uː p ɪ ŋ / or / ˈ w uː p ɪ ŋ /), also known as pertussis or the 100-day cough, is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable bacterial disease. [1] [10] Initial symptoms are usually similar to those of the common cold with a runny nose, fever, and mild cough, but these are followed by two or three months of severe coughing fits. [1]
Pertussis vaccine is a vaccine that protects against whooping cough (pertussis). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] There are two main types: whole-cell vaccines and acellular vaccines. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The whole-cell vaccine is about 78% effective while the acellular vaccine is 71–85% effective.
The DPT vaccine or DTP vaccine is a class of combination vaccines to protect against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus (lockjaw). [7] The vaccine components include diphtheria and tetanus toxoids , and either killed whole cells of the bacterium that causes pertussis or pertussis antigens .
Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative, aerobic, pathogenic, encapsulated coccobacillus bacterium of the genus Bordetella, and the causative agent of pertussis or whooping cough. Its virulence factors include pertussis toxin , adenylate cyclase toxin , filamentous haemagglutinin , pertactin , fimbria , and tracheal cytotoxin .
Bordetella bronchiseptica is a small, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Bordetella. [1] It can cause infectious bronchitis in dogs and other animals, [2] but rarely infects humans. [3]
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Whooping may refer to: Whooping Creek, a stream in Georgia, United States; Whooping, a style of preaching in the Black sermonic tradition; A form of gasping with ...