To pertussis vaccine prevention and therapy

Abstract

By its excruciating character, duration of course and accompanying complications, pertussis is one of the severe diseases of the child's body. The difficulty of early diagnosis in the first, catarrhal, most contagious period of infection (according to a number of authors, e.g., Weillé, Combu, Feer, contagiousness in the convulsive period is weaker or absent) and great susceptibility of children to it greatly complicate the fight against this disease. In closed institutions, where a large number of children are in constant and close contact, with the difficulty of isolation, create particularly favorable conditions for the spread of infection, and the more acute is the question of combating it.

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