Taber's Medical Dictionary
Bordetella
(bord″ĕ-tel′ă)
[From Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, 1870- 1961]
A genus of hemolytic gram-negative coccobacilli of the family Alcaligenaceae. Some species are parasitic and pathogenic in warm-blooded animals, including humans.
Bordetella bronchiseptica
A species that causes respiratory infections that primarily infect nonhuman mammals.
Bordetella parapertussis
A species that causes a slightly milder whooping cough than that caused by B. pertussis.
Bordetella pertussis
A species that causes whooping cough.
SEE: pertussis
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Bordetella." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/733449/all/Bordetella.
Bordetella. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/733449/all/Bordetella. Accessed December 20, 2024.
Bordetella. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/733449/all/Bordetella
Bordetella [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2024 December 20]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/733449/all/Bordetella.
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