Objective: Describe the prevalence of Bordetella pertussis via PCR in children under 5 years old hospitalized as probable cases of pertussis and report the most common clinical features among them. Results: A positive PCR result for B. pertussis was observed in 20.5% of our samples (18/88), one-third of them were from infants between 2 and 3 months old. The most common symptoms were paroxysms of coughing (88.9%), difficulty breathing (72.2%), cyanosis (77.8%) and fever (50%). The mother was the most common symptomatic carrier (27.8%), followed by uncles/aunts (22.2%) among children with pertussis. / This work was supported by fourth research incentive of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Lima‑Peru. / Revisión por pares
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PERUUPC/oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/624653 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | del Valle-Mendoza, Juana, Silva-Caso, Wilmer, Aguilar-Luis, Miguel Angel, del Valle-Vargas, Cristina, Cieza-Mora, Erico, Martins-Luna, Johanna, Aquino-Ortega, Ronald, Silva-Vásquez, Andrea, Bazán-Mayra, Jorge, Weilg, Pablo |
| Contributors | juana.delvalle@upc.pe, gian_will@hotmail.com, ma23aguilar@gmail.com, cristina.del.valle88@gmail.com, ericocieza@yahoo.es, johmarlu14@gmail.com, ronaldaquino.one@gmail.com, silvavasquezandrea@mail.com, jorgebazan7@gmail.com, pablo.weilg@gmail.com |
| Publisher | BioMed Central Ltd. |
| Source Sets | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Repositorio Academico - UPC, BMC Research Notes, 11, 1 |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ |
| Relation | https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-018-3405-7 |
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