A contagious disease of the respiratory system that usually affects children.
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Examples for "pertussis"
Examples for "pertussis"
1Herd immunity does not seem to completely protect unvaccinated children from pertussis.
2Acellular pertussis vaccines provide protection against whooping cough with few adverse effects.
3In the latter vaccine, pertussis antigen served as an adjuvant for PRP.
4Pretreating the cultures with pertussis toxin did not affect responses to ATP.
5Diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis antibody titers were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
1Thirty million people, mostly children, were infected with whooping cough last year.
2Reported cases of whooping cough have spiked in the past four weeks.
3This has been useful in the latter stages of the whooping cough.
4Acellular pertussis vaccines provide protection against whooping cough with few adverse effects.
5An outbreak of whooping cough in Otago children has spread to Dunedin.
1I wanted to get Maggie Cassidy up from the village for the day, but her baby had the chin-cough, and she couldn't come.'