In Russia, they found a bacterium that causing a disease similar to Cocklush reported “Izvestia” with reference to the scholars of the Moscow Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. G.N. Gabrichevsky.
The new bacteria that can cause a dangerous infection, pertussis akin to a stick. “A part of the cases of diseases with the symptoms of the cough is caused by a previously unknown pathogen – Bordetella Holmesii bacterium,” scientists said.
Now more than 130 thousand sick of this infection have been officially identified, but real indicators can be ten times higher, the newspaper notes. Russian scientists have already created a PCR test that can identify a new pathogen.
Previously, physician-pulmonologist of the Institute of Clinical Medicine Sklifosovsky Sechenovskiy University, Candidate of Medical Sciences Vladimir Beketov said that cough can be a symptom of various diseases, talking about the presence of a pathological process, irritating cough receptors, which in the body are everywhere – from the nasopharynx To the lower departments of the respiratory tract, including the pleura and the diaphragm. According to him, urgently requires an appeal to the doctor progressive cough effort against the background of degradation of well-being, the difficulty of breathing, cough on the background of the continuing more than five days of temperature.