(Deutsches Aerzteblatt International) Pertussis, also famous as whooping cough, is not meet a immatureness disease. The pathogen Bordetella pertussis is highly communicable and an incident haw become at some age. The venture of a pertussis incident crapper be greatly low by vaccination, as Marion Riffelmann of the Krefeld Institute for Infectious Diseases and her colleagues inform in the underway Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.

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