Bordetella pertussis

When it was time for me to get my TDAP (tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis) vaccine I was beyond nervous. I did everything I could to get out of it, but eventually my mom was able to drag me to the doctor’s office. I began to get highly anxious for what was to come as I was sitting on the not so comfortable bed in the immunization…

diphtheria and tetanus vaccine for pediatric children, Td, another vaccine for diphtheria and tetanus but made for children 7 years and older, DTaP, a vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis in pediatric children, Tdap, once again a vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis but in…

Pertussis Pertussis is also known as the whooping cough has infected and killed many infants and young children under the age of one, it has also killed people older than one but that is very uncommon for people over the age of one to get the disease. In these paragraphs i will explain the background and description, the symptoms, influences on body, and cures and treatments for the disease. Pertussis, (whooping cough) mainly affects infants and young children under the age of one. Infants…

KENNEL COUGH IN DOGS https://www.munch.zone/kennel-cough-in-dogs/ All dogs will usually have a small cough at some point. Just like humans, they also suffer from cough when they’re dealing with a minor illness or they’ve got something stuck in their throats. Sometimes these small inconveniences may also be a serious issue like as canine infectious tracheobronchitis which is, in other words known as kennel cough. But how will one know whether the dog is seriously going through such problems?…

After I gave birth to my beautiful daughter my doctor told me that I needed to find a pediatrician for her. I did of course and she had her first appointment about a week after we were discharged from the hospital. The appointment went good and they told me that I needed to go and schedule the four month old check up and that is when my daughter would receive her first set of shots. I didn’t think anything about it because I had received all my shots when I was growing up. Then I went home and…

Bordetella pertussis, also known as B. pertussis, is the bacteria most commonly known for its association involving the disorder Pertussis, or “whooping cough” [1]. The bacterium is a gram negative, cocobacillus capsulate that will typically colonize within the cilia of a human’s respiratory epithelium [2]. Once in the respiratory epithelium, the bacterium is able to inhibit the host’s immune system by colonizing rapidly, as well as releasing pertussis toxin, or PTx [1]. Through these…

The Genus Bordetella Bordetella are catalase positive, asaccharolytic, aerobic, gram positive rods, whose optimal growth is at 35° to 37°C. Disease 1. Species of Bordetella is known to cause respiratory diseases like whooping cough, pneumonia, and sinusitis. 2. There are eight species of Bordetella that cause different diseases including Bordetella parapertussis, Bordetella bronchiseptica, Bordetella avium, Bordetella hinzii, Bordetella holmessi, Bordetella trematum, Bordetella pertussis,…

Adolescents and adults also should be encouraged to go for their regular immunization. Pertussis is mediated by toxins. When the Bordetella pertussis gets into the respiratory tract, it attaches itself to the cilia of the epithelial cells of the respiratory tract. After doing this, the microbes release toxins that immobilize the cilia of the epithelial cells. One of the more understood pertussis toxins is called the lymphocytosis-promoting factor which is responsible for causing a decrease…

Pertussis is an infectious bacterial disease also known as whooping cough or 100-day cough. The bacterium that causes this illness is called Bordetella pertussis. This highly contagious disease mainly affects kids younger than 6 months old, because their immunization is not yet strong to protect them. The disease first starts symptoms similar to common cold symptoms which are: coughing, sneezing, low fever, or runny nose. However, after approximately 10 days, the cough of pertussis turns into…

common in infants. Vomiting or a short loss of consciousness is one of the other counters to expect when encountering the cough. Coughing and vomiting together at the same time is an automatic symptom of pertussis. Having a runny nose, a slight fever, or even diarrhea are different symptoms of pertussis (Guilfoile, 2010).…