Fatal pertussis in an Iowa infant.
Much media attention has been paid to neurological disease induced by DPT vaccine, but what about the risk of pertussis to unimmunized children? The authors present a case report of fatal whooping cough in a 5-week-old baby.
Corkins
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University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Grose
C
C
Halbur
T
T
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D014917:Whooping Cough / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology