Data=KCDC Last year, the number of legal infectious diseases increased by 54.5% compared to the previous year. The whooping ...

The Tdap vaccine provides essential protection against tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis, playing a critical role in ...

Pertussis infections have surged in recent months, and some people may need an additional shot for protection. By Teddy Rosenbluth After a brief lull during the pandemic, whooping cough has ...

Pertussis toxin (PT) plays a fundamental role in the pathogenesis of pertussis (12–14) and is a component of all acellular pertussis vaccines (15–17). Especially in young infants, anti-PT antibodies ...

Cases of whooping cough—or pertussis as it’s more formally known—have been quietly but strongly surging to pre-pandemic levels and beyond. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ...

Amid an ongoing measles outbreak, the US is also facing a surge in pertussis, or whooping cough. As vaccine rates drop, other diseases could be next. As the United States grapples with rising ...

Vaccines for whooping cough could improve following research published April 2 by UT and other global researchers specifically focused on two antibodies that target the infection’s toxins. The ...

Structural basis for neutralizing antibody binding to pertussis toxin Go to source). The Resurgence of Whooping Cough Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is making an alarming comeback.

She pointed to innovations like mRNA technology used in the Covid-19 vaccine, as well as breakthroughs in using genetic engineering on pertussis toxin (PTgen) to generate safer and more potent new ...

One of the things that makes pertussis infections dangerous is pertussis toxin (PT), a chemical weapon produced by the bacteria that weakens a patient’s immune response and causes many of the ...

Structural basis for neutralizing antibody binding to pertussis toxin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2025; 122 (14) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2419457122 Cite This Page : ...