A CLINICAL CASE OF PERTUSSIS IN THE YOUNG CHILD
Pertussis remains an urgent problem of children’s infectious pathology. Children of early age continue to form a group threatened to develop severe and complicated forms of the disease, which can lead to fatal outcomes. Although for many years the pertussis clinic has been well studied, the correct diagnosis is established untimely, which causes errors in treatment and significantly affects the outcome of the disease. In conditions of wide dissemination of pertussis, preservation, mortality, and given the low level of diagnostics, remains an urgent development of clinical criteria for the diagnosis of various forms of whooping cough, especially in children of early age. The article presents a clinical case of pertussis in a one-month-old child. The diagnosis was made on the basis of anamnestic, clinical, laboratory and instrumental data. The main indicator was a positive test for IgM Bordetella pertussis in the mother, while in the child it was negative.