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CLINICAL COURSE OF WHOOPING COUGH IN CHILDREN YOUNGER THAN SIX MONTHS
Author(s) -
TROLLFORS B.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1979.tb05014.x
Subject(s) - medicine , whooping cough , pediatrics , pneumonia , erythromycin , disease , antibiotics , immunology , vaccination , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
. The patient records of 59 children aged 2–26 weeks with culture‐verified pertussis were analysed. Twenty‐four of them were hospitalized, in most cases for social reasons. Only one child with hypothyroidism and a complicating pneumonia was critically ill. Seventeen of the 35 non‐hospitalized patients had a mild disease without developing typical whooping attacks. Thirteen children were treated with erythromycin in the catarrhal stage. There was a tendency towards milder disease in this group but the differences compared to untreated children were not statistically significant.