- ►annals.org [PDF] MS Dworkin - Annals of internal medicine, 2005 - Am Coll Physicians Although studies have shown that pertussis is responsible for approximately 20% to 30% of cases
of cough lasting more than 2 weeks in adults and adolescents, physicians have generally considered
pertussis a disease that affects only children. Epidemi- ologic trends demonstrate that the ... Cited by 21 - Related articles - All 3 versions
EL Hewlett, KM Edwards - The New England journal of medicine, 2005 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1: N Engl J Med. 2005 Mar 24;352(12):1215-22. Clinical practice. Pertussis--not just for kids.
Hewlett EL, Edwards KM. Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department
of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908, USA. ... Cited by 51 - Related articles - All 2 versions
AS Craig, SW Wright, KM Edwards, JW Greene, ML … - The American journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier Thirty-seven undergraduates were evaluated. Their mean duration of cough was 28 days. No
student had cultures positive for B. pertussis; one was PCR positive. Ten (27%) had serologic
values consistent with acute pertussis infection. The e-mail survey was returned by ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - All 13 versions
M Thornton, H Rowley, J Cummiskey, C … - … —Head & Neck Surgery, 2001 - archotol.highwire.org A chronic cough, by definition, is a persistently troublesome cough that is present for a minimum
of 3 weeks. It can be a cause of major functional limitation and medical debilitation, and because
of this is the fifth most common reason for visits to the physician. 1 Cough is the fifth most ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
[CITATION] Incidence of pertussis among adolescents and adults, Minnesota, 1995-96
JW Bass, ME Weisse, TT Trinh - The Journal of Pediatrics, 1990 - Elsevier * The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private views of the authors and are not
to be construed as official or as reflecting the views of the Department of the Army or the Department
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U Heininger - Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, 2002 - journals.lww.com Pertussis, or whooping cough, is an acute infection of the respiratory tract by Bordetella pertussis
and, less fre- quently, by B. parapertussis [1]. The illness occurs worldwide, it affects all age
groups, and is most seri- ous in young, unprotected infants. Whooping cough caused by ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
JD Cherry, SJ Chang, D Klein, M Lee, S … - Clinical Infectious …, 2004 - UChicago Press Featured in New York Times "Searching the Web for Flu Outbreaks" November 28, 2008 Using
Internet Searches for Influenza Surveillance Philip M. Polgreen, Yiling Chen, David M.
Pennock, and Forrest D. Nelson One study, published by the journal Clinical Infectious ... Cited by 17 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
