Pertussis: treatment goals and prevention options
The article deals with the questions of rational therapy and immunoprophylaxis of pertussis. It is shown that antibiotics can suppress cough only in incubational period and at prodromal stage as a result of B.pertussis eradication. At the spasmodic stage of pertussis, the main target of therapy is p...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Publishing House Zaslavsky
2018-02-01
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Series: | Aktualʹnaâ Infektologiâ |
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Online Access: | http://ai.zaslavsky.com.ua/article/view/125630 |