Whooping Cough Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Whooping Cough, including details on symptoms, treatment, vaccines, causes, outbreaks.

Volume 2 (2005), Issue 2 (February)

1. The pneumoplex assays, a multiplex PCR-enzyme hybridization assay that allows simultaneous detection of five organisms, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydia (Chlamydophila) pneumoniae, Legionella pneumophila, Legionella micdadei, and Bordetella pertussis, and its real-time counterpart.
   J Clin Microbiol, 43(2): 565-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Diagnosis and management of pertussis.
   CMAJ, 172(4): 509-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Activation of the vrg6 promoter of Bordetella pertussis by RisA.
   J Bacteriol, 187(5): 1648-58. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Bordetella pertussis-infected human monocyte-derived dendritic cells undergo maturation and induce Th1 polarization and interleukin-23 expression.
   Infect Immun, 73(3): 1590-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Proteolytic cleavage of pertussis toxin S1 subunit is not essential for its activity in mammalian cells.
   BMC Microbiol, 5(1): 7. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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