Whooping cough in a previously vaccinated patient--case report
Biesiada, G.; Czepiel, J.; Skwara, Pł.; Sobczyk-Krupiarz, I.; Mach, T.
Przeglad Lekarski 62(2): 133-134
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2240 PMID: 16095161 Document Number: 584915
Pertussis is an acute contagious human disease caused by gram-negative Coccobacilli Bordetella pertussis. Numerous factors and toxins produced by Bordetella pertussis play important role in pathogenicity of the disease. Typical illness has three clinical stages: catarrhal, paroxysmal and convalescent. In therapy erythromycin is the antibiotic of choice. We present a case of pertussis in a seventeen year old, previously vaccinated patient.