Bordetella pertussis

border,

n a circumferential margin or edge.

border, denture (denture edge, denture periphery),

n the limit, boundary, or circumferential margin of a denture base.

border, mandibular (mandibular plane),

n a tangent to the inferior border of the mandible. A line joining point gonion to point gnathion.

border molding,

n the shaping of an impression material by the manipulation or action of the tissues to determine the denture border position.

border movement,

n See movement, border.

border seal,

n the contact of the denture border with the underlying or adjacent tissues to prevent the passage of air or other substances.

border structures,

n.pl the oral structures that bound the borders of a denture.

border tissues, movement,

n the action of the muscles and other structures adjacent to the borders of a denture.

Bordetella pertussis

n.pl the infectious bacteria responsible for whooping cough (pertussis), which is spread from person to person by direct contact with mucosal discharges.

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Bordetella

a genus of gram-negative bacteria which cause respiratory disease in a number of species.

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Bordetella avium

the cause of turkey coryza. Previously called Alcaligenes fecalis.

Bordetella bronchiseptica

a small, gram-negative, motile bacillus. A normal inhabitant of the respiratory tract in humans, dogs and pigs, but also causes pneumonia, stillbirths, abortions, canine infectious tracheobronchitis (see kennel cough) and atrophic rhinitis in pigs.

Bordetella parapertussis

implicated in pneumonia in sheep, in association with Mannheimia haemolytica.

Bordetella pertussis

the cause of whooping cough in humans. Used as an adjuvant for immunostimulation.

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Bordetella pertussis

Microbiology A small, aerobic, gram-negative bacillus, causative organism of whooping cough; B pertussis produces various toxins including a dermonecrotizing toxin, an adenyl cyclase, an endotoxin and pertussis toxin, as well as surface components such as fimbrial hemagglutinin Diagnosis Culture, serology, clinical Rx