Eiko Hidaka

A Case of Pediatric Pertussis Unhesitatingly Diagnosed with the Insight of Microbiology Laboratory

Ayaka Horiuchi, Noriko Kubota, Eiko Hidaka, Tomohiko Nakamura, Kozue Oana & Yoshiyuki Kawakami · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2016

We describe a pediatric pertussis case occurred in an unvaccinated six-month-old male infant. The newborn patient was rapidly diagnosed by means of the insight of the clinical microbiology laboratory, despite the absence of comments on the suspicion of pertussis. The keen insight...