Archives de pédiatrie : organe officiel de la Sociéte française de pédiatrie
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Whooping cough is a respiratory infection particularly severe for infants. The agents of the disease are the bacteria Bordetella pertussis and B. parapertussis. Before vaccination, the disease affected majority of the children. ⋯ They can be infected and contaminated infants are too young to be vaccinated. Clinical symptoms in adolescents and adults, previously vaccinated or infected, are very variable and for this reason biological diagnosis are now necessary to confirm the infection. These diagnostics are culture, PCR and serology.
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Case Reports
[Systemic infantile mastocytosis: about a case with respiratory and digestive involvement].
Systemic mastocytosis is rare in children and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation and infiltration of mast cells in different tissues. ⋯ Respiratory manifestations and nodular infiltration of the digestive tract are rare in systemic mastocytosis. The prognosis is conditioned by complications such as malignancy and the persistence of the disease till the adult age.