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Bordetella

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Bordetella /Bor·de·tel·la/ (bor?dah-tel´ah) a genus of bacteria (family Brucellaceae), including B. bronchisep´tica, a common cause of bronchopneumonia in guinea pigs and other rodents, in swine, and in lower primates; B. parapertus´sis, found occasionally in whooping cough; and B. pertus´sis, the cause of whooping cough in humans.
Bor·de·tel·la (bôrd-tl)
n.
A genus of aerobic bacteria that contain minute gram-negative coccobacilli and are parasites and pathogens of the mammalian respiratory tract.

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

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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