Objective: Serological diagnosis of 48 suspected cases of Whooping Cough, received Medical Bacteriology Department at the National Institute of Hygiene in Rabat from four Moroccan provinces. The technique used is the ELISA.
Results: From 48 suspected cases of Whooping Cough, 28 cases (58%) were positives, 10 cases (21%) were negatives and 10 cases (21%) were doubtful.
Conclusion: Despite the effort of the Ministry of Health for immunization against pertussis immunization coverage which exceeds 90% of children, we see sporadic cases affecting some provinces that may be responsible for death.
Pertussis or whooping cough is a highly contagious infection of the respiratory tract caused by the bacterium albordtella pertussis. It’s a disease that could affects human at all his stages of life and the infection may be repeated several times, but gravity is reflected in babies given the complications that can lead to death. Over the last decades, the disease have increased although vaccines. And because of the decreased immunity against this disease among adults and adolescents, making them vulnerable, they become a source of infection for children who have not yet received the vaccine or have not completed the initial vaccination.
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