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What is whooping cough pathogen?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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Pertussis

Bordetella pertussis is easily transmitted by close contact when secretions are transmitted during talking, laughing, coughing, and sneezing (secretions by nose and throat). Whooping cough is a highly contagious disease characterised by paroxysms of coughing (five to twenty coughs are followed by forced inhalation). Virulent factors include pertussis toxin, hemolysin, adenylate cyclase (AC), and filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA)

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