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Meaning of pertussis | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
pəˈtʌsɪs

Definitions

Whooping cough.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Čeština černý kašel
Bahasa Indonesia batuk rejan pertusis
日本語 百日咳
Português pertússis
ไทย ไอกรน
Tiếng Việt ho gà

Examples

“With the introduction of an improved and standardized pertussis vaccine in the 1940s, there followed a remarkable decline in pertussis in the United States, most of the Western world, and Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.”
“Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen that infects the human respiratory tract, causing the disease pertussis or whooping cough.”
“2015, Dr. Stephen Berger, Pertussis: Global Status, GIDEON Informatics, Inc., E-book, page 343, During 1993 to 2004, the hospitalization rate [in the US] for pertussis among infants ages <= 2 months was 239 per 100,000 live births.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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