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Bordetella pertussis

Bordetella pertussis ou bacille de Bordet Gengou. Coccobacille à Gram négatif, aérobie strict, encapsulé au sortir de l'organisme, immobile. Bactérie fragile et difficile à cultiver. Agent de la coqueluche, maladie respiratoire aigüe pouvant être mortelle
News
2024.09.18
Epidemiological news
Whooping cough: how do we explain its resurgence in 2024 in France?
  Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can be severe or even fatal for vulnerable individuals, such as unvaccinated infants. People...
Whooping cough
Bordetella pertussis copyright Institut Pasteur
News
2022.04.28
Understanding how the whooping cough bacterium has evolved in response to vaccination
  How do we track the dynamics of a disease, particularly in terms of its response to vaccines? A study published in Science Translational Medicine provides...
Whooping coughBordetella pertussisVaccinationmodeling
Coqueluche et autres bordetelloses - Institut Pasteur
News
2021.03.09
Whooping cough
Whooping cough: light shed on the entry mechanism of a key Bordetella pertussis virulence factor
Bordetella pertussis is the agent responsible for whooping cough, a disease that is currently on the rise. In particular, the bacterium produces the CyaA toxin...
Whooping coughBaceria
Coqueluche et autres bordetelloses - Institut Pasteur
News
2019.09.06
Research
Whooping cough: elucidation of a critical stage in the action of the CyaA toxin
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur are investigating CyaA, one of the major toxins of Bordetella pertussis. This bacterium is responsible for whooping cough...
Whooping cough
News
2019.06.18
Research
Vaccines: a life insurance for humankind
France would be more suspicious of vaccines than more than 140 other countries, according to a global survey into how people around the world think and feel...
Vaccination
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