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