Osaka, Japan – Commonly known as whooping cough, pertussis is a respiratory disease that results from infection with the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. This ailment often affects children and is ...
New research could aid in improving whooping cough vaccines to once again push this disease toward eradication by targeting two key weaknesses in the infection. Whooping cough, or pertussis, was once ...
Vaccinating women with tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis–inactivated polio virus (Tdap-IPV) during pregnancy in a sub–Saharan African setting was safe, well tolerated and boosted ...
Researchers have generated a mouse model of pertussis, commonly called whooping cough, sufficiently replicating the persistent cough symptom. By studying various bacteria mutants and observing the ...
Whooping cough, or pertussis, was once a leading cause of death for children in the U.S. and worldwide before the introduction of vaccines in the 1940s. In the decades since, the bacterial disease was ...