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RESEARCH ARTICLE

FactSheet: Whooping cough (pertussis)


New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 11(11) 193 - 193
Published: 2000

Abstract

Whooping cough is a disease caused by infection with the bacteria Bordetella pertussis. Whooping cough occurs in people of all ages but is most serious (and can be fatal) in young children.

https://doi.org/10.1071/NB00087

© NSW Department of Health 2000

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