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Whoop! There It Is: A Pertinent Pediatric Pertussis Podcast

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Bordetella pertussis was isolated in 1906 by Belgian researchers, Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou, I hopefully I pronounced them right, but they’re long gone, so they won’t be mad at me,, leading to the development of a whole cell pertussis vaccine in the 1940s. Pertussis has been recognized since the 16th century.