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 5 (May)

1. The epidemiology of pertussis: a comparison of the epidemiology of the disease pertussis with the epidemiology of Bordetella pertussis infection.
   Pediatrics, 115(5): 1422-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Development and use of an internal positive control for detection of Bordetella pertussis by PCR.
   J Clin Microbiol, 43(5): 2462-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Use of monoclonal antibodies to serotype Bordetella pertussis isolates: comparison of results obtained by indirect whole-cell enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and bacterial microagglutination methods.
   J Clin Microbiol, 43(5): 2449-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Scaling properties of childhood infectious diseases epidemics before and after mass vaccination in Canada.
   J Theor Biol, 235(3): 326-37. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Combined reduced-antigen-content diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis and polio vaccine (dTpa-IPV) for booster vaccination of adults.
   Vaccine, 23(28): 3657-67. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Acellular pertussis vaccines in Japan: past, present and future.
   Expert Rev Vaccines, 4(2): 173-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Bordetella AlcS transporter functions in alcaligin siderophore export and is central to inducer sensing in positive regulation of alcaligin system gene expression.
   J Bacteriol, 187(11): 3650-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Infection of newborn piglets with Bordetella pertussis: a new model for pertussis.
   Infect Immun, 73(6): 3636-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Epidemiological impact of vaccination on the dynamics of two childhood diseases in rural Senegal.
   Microbes Infect, 7(4): 593-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Oligomeric behavior of Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase toxin in solution.
    Arch Biochem Biophys, 438(1): 80-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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