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Whooping Cough - Coggle Diagram
Whooping Cough
Clinical Diagnosis
- Suspect in acute cough for 14 days or more without another apparent cause with one or more of the following:
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- Undiagnosed apnoeic attacks in young infants
- Not fully immunized, or contact with confirmed/suspected case should raise clinical suspicion
- Consider alternative diagnosis is symptoms are atypical
Differential Diagnosis:
- Other infectious causes of cough
- Respiratory syncytial virus
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- Upper airway cough syndrome
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
- Underlying lung malignancy
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Notifiable disease
If any suspicion of infection due to clinical features a notification form should be completed and sent to Public Health.
Public health will advise on appropriate test for confirmation and surveillance depending on age, duration of symptoms and local laboratory facillities.
Definition: Whooping cough (pertussis) is a highly infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. The name comes from the characteristic 'whoops' that occur in children during bout of paroxysmal cough. The incubation period is approximately 7-10 days. A person is consider infectious from onset of symptoms until 48 hours of appropriate antibiotic therapy or for 21 days from onset of symptom if antibiotic therapy is not completed.