Objectives: Despite World Health Organization endorsed immunization schedules, Bordetella pertussis continues to cause severe infections, predominantly in infants. There is a lack of data on the ...

Early signs of whooping cough in adults look very much like a common cold, Dr. Loafman says. For the first week or so of ...

That marks the most fatalities from the bacterial infection since a 2017 surge of the illness, which is also known as pertussis. Over the last month, pertussis infections have been rising again.

We report on incidence and outcomes of severe pertussis in infants requiring ICU admission in Australia and New Zealand over a 13-year period, with the major burden observed in infants below 2 ...

Known medically as pertussis, whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory illness caused by the bacteria for which it's named, Bordetella ... such as chronic lung disease or cystic fibrosis ...

Young children, including infants and preschool-aged children, were still a high-risk group for pertussis infection in Chongqing. It is recommended to administer an additional dose of ...

Background Early-life inflammation has long been recognised as a key pathophysiological process in the evolution of cystic ...

Pertussis, or whooping cough, has been reported in the St. Paul Public School District, with at least one case confirmed as of Saturday, according to an email sent by the district to families.