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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 images that show the bacteria and read about the preventative accination given to children.
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bacterial infection, bordetella pertussis, pertussis, whooping cough, b. pertussis, bordetella, dtp vaccine, lipopolysaccharide, the pertussis vaccines, toxins produced by b. pertussis, virulence factors in b. pertussis, acellular pertussis vaccines, cell-bound pertussis toxin, dermonecrotic toxin, pertussis toxin, toxemic stage
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