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Whooping Cough

"Whooping Cough" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A respiratory infection caused by BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS and characterized by paroxysmal coughing ending in a prolonged crowing intake of breath.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Whooping Cough" by people in this website by year, and whether "Whooping Cough" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 20 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015
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