Pertussis

Disease Report Pertussis or whooping cough affects the respiratory system. It is a contagious infection of the respiratory tract. Pertussis is caused by a type of bacteria called Bordetella pertussis. The disease is highly contagious. Infected people are most contagious up to about 2 weeks after the cough begins. The bacteria spread easily through the air from person to person through tiny drops of fluid from an infected person's nose or mouth. When an infected person sneezes or coughs, others

Pertussis, is a very contagious disease that effects the lungs. Though, a person of any age can have pertussis, it is most common in infants or children of young ages. Pertussis is caused by a bacteria called Bordetella Pertussis. The disease is more commonly known as Whooping cough. This is because of the sound one may hear from someone who has this disease. Per the Center for disease control, the bacteria will release a toxin that attaches to the patient’s airway which causes swelling and damage

Timothy Merlino Professor Gross-Davis Public Health 303 28 October 2015 Pertussis in Primary Care Aims & Methods Pertussis is uncommon in adults but is often left undetected and untreated (Teepe, et al., 2015, p. 662). This is important because Pertussis is a communicable disease and is potentially fatal to infants, children, and immunosuppressed people. Pertussis remains a problem due to a lack of immunity (Teepe, et al., 2015, p. 662). Currently, children are more often vaccinated while adults

Bordetella pertussis is one of and the most severe causative bacterium of whooping cough, the other being Bordetella parapertussis1. It is highly contagious and treatment is generally more effective if started earlier. However, it takes far too long to culture, and since the patient will not be isolated or treated until a diagnosis from the culture is made, this gives the bacteria more chances of infecting another person and further compromising the patient’s condition. Multiplex polymerase chain

Pertussis Brennan Williams/Block #2 Pertussis is caused by a bacteria. This bacteria is passed down through person to person by contact and by the bacteria in their cough. symptoms are a runny nose, nasal congestion, red watery eyes, fever, and cough at first later the symptoms evolve into provoke vomiting resulting in a red/blue face. Extreme fatigue and it becomes difficult to breath. The population most likely to catch this illness are infants, pregnant women, and the elderly. There are vaccines

starting off slow that day and began to pick up, however it was a day of many people complaining of severe coughs. I felt I should be wearing a protective mask the entire shift because we were in small confined spaces with those that were sick. Pertussis was not something I was not expecting to encounter that day, yet discharged two patients with that definitive diagnosis. However, by the end of that shift is when it got real interesting. The triage nurse brought back a young female patient to one

Bordatella Pertussis or Whooping Cough Bordatella pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a serious and highly contagious respiratory tract infection that is transmitted from person to person. During the pre-vaccine era (1922-1940), that in every 100,000 persons, 150 cases of bordatella pertussis are reported and has to continue to increased in 1980s (Faulkner, Skoff, Martin, Tondella, & Liang, 2015). One study found that pertussis is one of the vaccine-preventable disease in the United States

1.2 Pertussis vaccination The causative agent of pertussis is Bordetella pertussis, a Gram–negative, aerobic coccobacillus that is an obligate human pathogen (7). The introduction of whole cell vaccination saw a dramatic reduction in pertussis incidence in the USA dropping from (corrected rate) 872 cases per 100,000 population in the pre vaccine era to <10 per 100,000 population 20 years following vaccine introduction (6). However the range of local and systemic effects in addition to false reports

the family of Betaproteobacteria is the bacteria Bordetella pertussis; it is a gram -, rod-shaped, non-motile bacterium. The bacterium is encapsulated and does not produce spores. Since Bordetella pertussis is non-motile they only can travel through water droplets usually if they are within five feet of the infected person. Bordetella pertussis cannot live outside of a human host for very long. The incubation period for Bordetella pertussis bacteria is typically four to twenty one days but can range

Bordetella pertussis in 1906 when the first isolation was made in a pure culture. The bacterium is described to be small, coccobacillus, rod-shaped and gram-negative that triggers the body’s immune system. The bacterium is classified in the domain of prokaryotes and has currently eight different species in the Bordetella genus. Three similar species in this genus are pathogenic to humans and cause the “whooping cough” disease. There are about 343 various strains of Bordetella pertussis bacteria around