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Vaccination is a widely used practice to help prevent infectious disease and commonly spread illnesses. A widely known and common vaccine is used to prevent infection of Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of Whooping cough. Whooping cough is known as one of the most common infectious disease deaths in the world <ref name=aa[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s100960050435/ Kerr, J.R. and Matthews, R.C."<i>Bordetella pertussis</i> Infection: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Management, and the Role of Protective Immunity." 2000. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease 19:77-88.]</ref>. The disease results in over 50 million cases worldwide per year, with the majority being unvaccinated individuals present in Third World Countries. [Kerr et al. 2000]. B. pertussis is spread through coughing and sneezing and symptoms first appear seven to ten days after infection [WHO]. These symptoms include: fever, runny nose, coughing which develops into a whooping cough, and phenomena [WHO]. Those infected with pertussis are contagious for around three weeks once coughing is displayed as a symptom yet symptoms can last up to eight weeks [WHO]. | Vaccination is a widely used practice to help prevent infectious disease and commonly spread illnesses. A widely known and common vaccine is used to prevent infection of Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of Whooping cough. Whooping cough is known as one of the most common infectious disease deaths in the world <ref name=aa [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s100960050435/ Kerr, J.R. and Matthews, R.C."<i>Bordetella pertussis</i> Infection: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Management, and the Role of Protective Immunity." 2000. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease 19:77-88.]</ref>.The disease results in over 50 million cases worldwide per year, with the majority being unvaccinated individuals present in Third World Countries. [Kerr et al. 2000]. B. pertussis is spread through coughing and sneezing and symptoms first appear seven to ten days after infection [WHO]. These symptoms include: fever, runny nose, coughing which develops into a whooping cough, and phenomena [WHO]. Those infected with pertussis are contagious for around three weeks once coughing is displayed as a symptom yet symptoms can last up to eight weeks [WHO]. | ||
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- ↑ Kerr, J.R. and Matthews, R.C."Bordetella pertussis Infection: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Management, and the Role of Protective Immunity." 2000. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease 19:77-88.
- ↑ Bartlett et al.: Oncolytic viruses as therapeutic cancer vaccines. Molecular Cancer 2013 12:103.
Authored for BIOL 238 Microbiology, taught by Joan Slonczewski, 2022, Kenyon College