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 4 (2007), Issue 10 (October)

1. Pertussis symptoms in adolescents and children versus infants: the influence of vaccination and age.
   Clin Pediatr (Phila), 46(8): 718-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Protection against clinical pertussis induced by whole-cell pertussis vaccination is related to primo-immunisation intervals.
   Vaccine, 25(43): 7510-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Iron stress increases Bordetella pertussis mucin-binding capacity and attachment to respiratory epithelial cells.
   FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol, 51(2): 414-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Improved efficacy of a licensed acellular pertussis vaccine, reformulated in an adjuvant emulsion of liposomes in oil, in a murine model.
   Clin Vaccine Immunol, 14(10): 1381-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Antibody responses to defined regions of the Bordetella pertussis virulence factor pertactin.
   Scand J Infect Dis. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Impact of alcaligin siderophore utilization on in vivo growth of Bordetella pertussis.
   Infect Immun, 75(11): 5305-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Construction and characterization of single-chain variable fragment antibodies directed against the Bordetella pertussis surface adhesins filamentous hemagglutinin and pertactin.
   Infect Immun, 75(11): 5476-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Delayed role of tumor necrosis factor- alpha in overcoming the effects of pertussis toxin.
   J Infect Dis, 196(8): 1228-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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