The association of viruses with clinical pertussis.
This study describes the results of attempts to grow viruses from per-nasal swabs taken from 136 children with clinical pertussis.Altogether 37 strains of a variety of different viruses were isolated. Adenovirus was the most frequent, making up 30% of the total. Besides these, herpes simplex, measles, influenza A2, influenza B, mumps, poliovirus and respiratory syncytial virus were detected.Bordetella pertussis was isolated from 22% of the cases.It appears that a pertussis-like syndrome can be caused by many agents besides Bord. pertussis and an accurate diagnosis requires laboratory confirmation.
D000256:Adenoviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000818:Animals; D001886:Bordetella pertussis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002642:Chick Embryo; D002648:Child; D003470:Culture Media; D000882:Haplorhini; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney; D008459:Measles virus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009109:Mumps virus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009975:Orthomyxoviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D017955:Poliovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012136:Respiratory Syncytial Viruses / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012621:Seasons; D018139:Simplexvirus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014780:Viruses / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014917:Whooping Cough / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*
D003470:Culture Media