You’ve been feeling a tickle in your throat this week, so you took a bunch of vitamins, drank a few extra glasses of water and hoped for the best. This morning, you have a new symptom: a cough. But ...

Bordetella Pertussis bacteria In adult patients, pooled estimates of sensitivity and specificity were generated for 4 clinical features: paroxysmal cough, posttussive vomiting, inspiratory whoop, and ...

The dangers of pertussis to infants and children, like the one above receiving an inoculation in 2003, are well understood. Many people don't know, however, that older people are also at risk.

Parents and guardians of Springboro Schools children are being told to monitor their children after district officials Wednesday learned there has been a case of Pertussis (Whooping Cough) identified ...

A devastating respiratory infection once thought to be primarily a childhood concern is making an alarming comeback among adults, catching the medical community and patients completely off guard.

Pertussis, a respiratory disease characterized by paroxysmal coughing, is rapidly spreading in Japan, with the number of cases this year reaching an all-time high. According to the Yomiuri Shimbun on ...

There are all kinds of ways to have a cough, none of them fun. But whether your wet cough is gross or your dry cough has become painful, know that a cough is your body’s way of protecting itself, ...

MANY questions about the immunologic mechanism responsible for the permanence of immunity after an attack of whooping cough are still obscure, in spite of a large number of clinical and experimental ...

Pertussis is commonly known as whooping cough. It is an extremely infectious bacteria that can lead to a violent, nasty cough that just will not seem to go away. Luckily, the DTaP vaccine has ...

In children, pooled estimates of sensitivity and specificity were generated for only 1 clinical feature: posttussive vomiting. A guideline based on a high-quality systematic review has been developed ...