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Handout
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Pertussis [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This PDF document from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contains detailed information about pertussis from several different angles. Information is provided on the clinical features, the complications, the incidence and the...
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Handout
Textbook of Bacteriology

Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology: Bordetella Pertussis and Whooping Cough

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the bacterium that causes whooping cough, Bordetella pertussis. It discusses how the bacterium effects the human body at it goes through various stages: colonization and the toxemic stage. Look at charts and...