Pertussis

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…

Bordetella Pertussis Just like the flu, pertussis is one of the many communicable disease that has recently broke out, causing numerous amounts of deaths and infections of the American people. “ Annually, more than 50 million cases of pertussis, including 600,000 deaths are reported worldwide”(Center for Biotechnology, Anna University). Pertussis is very contagious, the bacterial disease is also known as “whooping cough”. Whooping Cough is a upper respiratory infection…

be vaccinated. Pertussis, measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), varicella and hepatitis A are four popular vaccine-preventable diseases and all educators and other staff are suggested to immunize against these diseases by The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (2012). Pertussis is also called whooping cough. It is a respiratory infection that can lead to long bursts of coughing (State Government of Victoria, 2015). The infection is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis (State…

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…

lifetime. One common disease is Pertussis. Pertussis can also be known as tussis convulsive, or more commonly as whooping cough. The prefix per- means thoroughly/extreme, and the suffix –tussis means cough (merriamwebster) This disease is “a communicable, potentially deadly illness characterized by fits of coughing followed by a noisy whooping indrawn breath” (medicinenet n.d.). The disease, Pertussis, comes from bacteria. The bacterium is known as Bordetella pertussis. Usually, signs…

Outbreaks of pertussis were first described in the 16th century, and the organism was first isolated in 1906. (Pertussis, 2015) Per the Pertussis page, “In the 20th century, pertussis was one of the most common childhood diseases and a major cause of childhood mortality in the United States. Before the availability of the pertussis vaccine in the 1940s, more than 200,000 cases of pertussis were reported annually. Since widespread use of the vaccine…

Pertussis, has proven itself to be an enigma to sustain protection against this acute respiratory infection in the world of epidemiology and remains endemic to the United States. There has been a vaccine for pertussis in widespread use for over sixty-five years. However, the incidence of pertussis remains high with teens to adults and proves itself deadly to infants under 8 weeks of age when intractable pulmonary hypertension leads to cardiac failure (Carrico, C, 2013). The lowest report in the…

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…

can assist with the formulation of the focus question. For instance, a question like: In infants, how does being immunized against pertussis, compared with not being immunized, affect morbidity and mortality? Here, the population is the infants, while the issue is infants not immunized with pertussis. On the other hand, the comparison is infants immunized with pertussis, while the outcome is its effect on morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, it is likewise vital to identify the keywords or…

Another example of disease progress is pertussis, better known as whooping cough. Pertussis is an acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. The first outbreak of pertussis was recorded in the 16th century. By 1900, it was considered one of the most common childhood diseases in the U.S., as well as the leading cause of childhood mortality (CDC 2015). In the early 1940s, there were more than 200,000 annual cases of pertussis. Shortly thereafter, when the…