pertussis
See also: pertússis
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəˈtʌsɪs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɚˈtʌsɪs/
Noun
pertussis (countable and uncountable, plural pertusses)
- (pathology) Whooping cough.
- 1976, Charles R. Manclark, “The Current Status of Pertussis Vaccine: An Overview”, in D. Perlman, editor, Advances in Applied Microbiology, volume 20, page 1:
- With the introduction of an improved and standardized pertussis vaccine in the 1940s, there followed a remarkable decline in pertussis in the United States, most of the Western world, and Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
- 2009, Zoë E. V. Worthington, Nicholas H. Carbonetti, “18: Bordetella pertussis”, in Karl Wooldridge, editor, Bacterial Secreted Proteins: Secretory Mechanisms and Role in Pathogenesis, page 413:
- Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen that infects the human respiratory tract, causing the disease pertussis or whooping cough.
- 2015, Dr. Stephen Berger, Pertussis: Global Status, GIDEON Informatics, Inc., E-book, page 343,
- During 1993 to 2004, the hospitalization rate [in the US] for pertussis among infants ages <= 2 months was 239 per 100,000 live births.
Related terms
Translations
whooping cough — see whooping cough
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɾˈtusis/ [peɾˈt̪u.sis]
- Rhymes: -usis
- Syllabification: per‧tus‧sis
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