Bordetella Pertussis
Five thousand to ten thousand people died each year in the U.S. as a result of a strand of bacteria there was no vaccination for. This strand of bacteria was Bordetella pertussis. Now there are less then twenty fatalities are a year from Bordetella pertussis, whooping cough. Fifty percent of all Bordetella pertussis infections are found in children less than a year old. The older a person gets the less susceptible they are to an infection of Bordetella pertussis. The founder and director of the Pasteur Institute of Brabant, Jules Bordet, is the bacteriologist that we can thank for discovering Bordetella pertussis. One of Bordet's studies at the institute was serology; the study of immune reactions in body fluids, which helped him win a Nobel Prize for his discovery of immunity, factors in blood serum. Through the research on immunity with Octave Gengou Bordet discovered Bordetella pertussis in
Bordetella pertussis is a bacterium that has caused much harm in the U.S. at one time. Through the aide of Jules Bordet, Bordetella pertussis is no longer a problem. Today DTaP is one of the routine vaccines that children receive at their family physician's office. One day this bacterium will be something only read about in books. Multicomponent acellular vaccines have combinations of pertussis toxoid, filamentous hemagglutinin, pertactin, and the two types of fimbrea; they are used all over the U.S. A new vaccine, known as acellular pertussis has much fewer side effects than the whole cell vaccine, that is given today as medical standard, and is recommended by physicians nation wide. The vaccine DTaP, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis, is given in five doses: at age 2, 4, 6, 12-18 months and 4-6 years old. This is the best prevention method possible and it should be taken seriously. Bordete
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