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Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative, aerobic, pathogenic, encapsulated coccobacillus bacterium of the genus Bordetella, and the causative agent of pertussis or whooping cough. Its virulence factors include pertussis toxin , adenylate cyclase toxin , filamentous haemagglutinin , pertactin , fimbria , and tracheal cytotoxin .
Dogs will typically recover from kennel cough within a few weeks. However, secondary infections could lead to complications that could do more harm than the disease itself. [ 2 ] Several opportunistic invaders have been recovered from the respiratory tracts of dogs with kennel cough, including Streptococcus , Pasteurella , Pseudomonas , and ...
Two of these (B. pertussis and B. bronchiseptica) are also motile. [3] [4] There are about 16 different species of Bordetella likely descending from ancestors who lived in soil and/or water environments. [5] B. pertussis and occasionally B. parapertussis cause pertussis (whooping cough) in humans, and some B. parapertussis strains only colonize ...
"I would say [there's been] maybe a 50% increase in the number of coughing dogs we detect," Dr. Amanda Cavanagh at the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital told Scripps News Denver.
Pertussis was well known throughout Europe by the middle of the 18th century. Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou described in 1900 the finding of a new “ovoid bacillus” in the sputum of a 6-month-old infant with whooping cough. They were also the first to cultivate Bordetella pertussis at the Pasteur Institute in Brussels in 1906. [9]
Dogs with a wet cough, which produces phlegm, may make a gargling sound as they hack up mucus. Severe coughing episodes can also result in a dog retching and throwing up some bile or food, which ...
It can cause infectious bronchitis in dogs and other animals, [2] but rarely infects humans. [3] Closely related to B. pertussis [4] —the obligate human pathogen that causes pertussis (whooping cough); B. bronchiseptica can persist in the environment for extended periods. [5]
Whooping cough bacteria Bordetella pertussis in human airways; nurse prepares syringe with vaccine against whooping cough; Migrants from the southern border being dropped of at Trenton ...