Pertussis: The Whooping Cough

作者：Van Tuong Ngoc Nguyen^*; Simon Lauren

来源：Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice , 2018, 45(3): 423-+.

DOI：10.1016/j.pop.2018.05.003

• Bordetella pertussis
• Whooping cough
• Tdap and DTaP vaccine
• Paroxysmal cough

Bordetella pertussis can cause serious and potentially fatal complications, especially in very young infants. Early diagnosis and treatment of pertussis with a macrolide antibiotic, such as azithromycin, before the paroxysmal stage of disease can help mitigate complications and reduce the spread of this highly contagious disease.

• 出版日期2018-9