Tag: Bordet and Gengou
Bordetella
HISTORY:
In 1900 Bordet described a Gram-negative bacilli such as whooping cough agent.
In 1906 Bordet and Gengou have managed to grow the bacillus on an...
Whooping Cough
* Bordetella pertussis (Bordet and Gengou bacillus) Gram-negative bacilli cultivable aerobic.
Contamination is air (infectiousness continues after 3 weeks of the catarrhal phase).
The bacteria are...
