Journal article
Pertussis and Pertussis Vaccines in Adults
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.269(1), pp.93-94
01/06/1993
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1993.03500010103042
PMID: 8416415
Abstract
Seventy-one years ago John Phillips observed that "pertussis in adults is often unrecognized, and this is accountable... for the spread of the disease... The prevalent idea among the laity, and sometimes among physicians and nurses, that adults seldom contract whooping cough is responsible for lack of quarantine."1 Despite numerous reports to the contrary,2-18 physicians still embrace the myth that pertussis is a disease affecting only children. To illustrate this point, in a grand rounds presentation on pertussis I asked physicians who had seen adult patients with persistent cough to raise their hands. Not surprisingly, almost everyone had seen such a patient. When asked whether they had included pertussis in the differential diagnosis, only one physician among 200 raised his hand.The worldwide impact of pertussis remains enormous with approximately 60 million cases of pertussis and 600 000 pertussis-related deaths each year.19 In the United States, 27826 cases
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Pertussis and Pertussis Vaccines in Adults
- Creators
- Lorween A Herwaldt
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.269(1), pp.93-94
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- DOI
- 10.1001/jama.1993.03500010103042
- PMID
- 8416415
- ISSN
- 0098-7484
- eISSN
- 1538-3598
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/06/1993
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094483202771
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