Bordetella pertussis in children hospitalized with a respiratory infection: clinical characteristics and pathogen detection in household contacts
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Authors
del Valle-Mendoza, JuanaSilva-Caso, Wilmer
Aguilar-Luis, Miguel Angel
del Valle-Vargas, Cristina
Cieza-Mora, Erico
Martins-Luna, Johanna
Aquino-Ortega, Ronald
Silva-Vásquez, Andrea
Bazán-Mayra, Jorge
Weilg, Pablo
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2018-05xmlui.metadata.dc.contributor.email
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BioMed Central Ltd.Journal
BMC Research NotesDOI
10.1186/s13104-018-3405-7Abstract
Objective: Describe the prevalence of Bordetella pertussis via PCR in children under 5 years old hospitalized as probable cases of pertussis and report the most common clinical features among them. Results: A positive PCR result for B. pertussis was observed in 20.5% of our samples (18/88), one-third of them were from infants between 2 and 3 months old. The most common symptoms were paroxysms of coughing (88.9%), difficulty breathing (72.2%), cyanosis (77.8%) and fever (50%). The mother was the most common symptomatic carrier (27.8%), followed by uncles/aunts (22.2%) among children with pertussis.Type
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
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engISSN
1756-0500Sponsors
This work was supported by fourth research incentive of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Lima‑Peru.ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1186/s13104-018-3405-7
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