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Whooping cough cases are surging across the country. The illness causes a signature “whooping” sound after someone coughs. Coughs can linger for months afterward.
When it comes to seasonal illnesses, few are as dreaded - or as preventable - as whooping cough.The violent coughing fits, the struggle to breath, and the high pitched "whoop" sound that some ...
Whooping cough (/ ˈ h uː p ɪ ŋ / or / ˈ w uː p ɪ ŋ /), also known as pertussis or the 100-day cough, is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable bacterial disease. [1] [10] Initial symptoms are usually similar to those of the common cold with a runny nose, fever, and mild cough, but these are followed by two or three months of severe coughing fits. [1]
Respiratory sounds, also known as lung sounds or breath sounds, are the specific sounds generated by the movement of air through the respiratory system. [1] These may be easily audible or identified through auscultation of the respiratory system through the lung fields with a stethoscope as well as from the spectral characteristics of lung sounds. [2]
Pertussis is an infection of the respiratory system characterized by a "whooping" sound when the person breathes in. [26] B. pertussis infects its host by colonizing lung epithelial cells. The bacterium contains a surface protein, filamentous haemagglutinin adhesin , which binds to the sulfatides found on cilia of epithelial cells.
Pertussis/whooping cough is a bacterial respiratory infection that spreads through the air when infected people cough or sneeze. ... often accompanied by a distinctive "whoop" sound during ...
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The bacterial illness is officially called pertussis but is often referred to as “whooping cough” because of the sound people — especially babies — make when trying to get enough oxygen ...