eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | pertussis |
| Comorbidity | C0043167|whooping cough |
| Sentences | 8 |
| PubMedID- 22940441 | Bordetella pertussis, the cause of whooping cough, is highly contagious. |
| PubMedID- 23249233 | whooping cough, due to bordetella pertussis and bordetella parapertussis, is an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. |
| PubMedID- 26375454 | whooping cough due to bordetella pertussis is increasing in incidence, in part due to accumulation of mutations which increase bacterial fitness in highly vaccinated populations. |
| PubMedID- PMC4512410 | Bordetella pertussis infection (whooping cough) has been on the riseand the most cases in the us since 1955 were reported in 2012 (48,277 or 15.4 per100,000) [1]. |
| PubMedID- 24219484 | Although there is a high uptake of vaccinations providing protection against bordetella pertussis, the main cause of whooping cough, there has been an increase in the incidence of notifications of the disease in the uk and other developed countries in recent years. |
| PubMedID- 24721229 | Infection with b holmesii is frequently misidentified as being with b pertussis, the cause of whooping cough, because routine diagnostic tests for pertussis are not species-specific. |
| PubMedID- 21115396 | The occasionally severe neurological complications following the human respiratory tract infection 'whooping cough' have been attributed to pertussis toxin (pt) expressed by the causative agent bordetella pertussis. |
| PubMedID- 23027528 | Parapertussis in whooping cough cases has been increasing since the introduction of acellular pertussis vaccines containing purified antigens that are common to both strains. |
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