Aunque ha cambiado de nombre a lo largo del tiempo, su origen siempre ha sido el mismo: la bacteria Bordetella pertussis. Recientemente un comediante neolonés dio a conocer que su bebé recién ...

Mohan said whooping cough is a contagious respiratory disease caused by Bordetella pertussis, a bacteria that only affects humans. Cold-like symptoms are usually the first signs of whooping cough.

One hypothesis is that the switch from a vaccine containing whole Bordetella pertussis cells to an acellular version with pertussis antigens—a change that happened in the US around the year 2000—might ...