From: Tom Sargent <[log in to unmask]>
>Hi all
>Request for help please.
>Recently I saw a 30ish asthmatic lady with a chronic episodic cough for 3
>weeks or so. She and asthma nurse had been increasing steroids etc with no
>benefit and since this was episodic & not asthmatic I wondered aloud if it
>was pertussis.
You are completely correct.
Very unlikely to be infectious after 3 weeks.
Adults poor transmitters. Perhaps because they have the manners usually
not to cough in peoples faces.
Erythromycin will have clobbered the rest anyway.
Doug Jenkinson
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