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	Octave Gengou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Octave Gengou (* 1875; † 1957) was a Belgian bacteriologist.
		Gengou worked at the Belgium Pasteur Institute in Brussels.
		With Jules Bordet he isolated 1906 Bordetella pertussis in pure culture and declared is as the cause of whooping cough.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Octave_Gengou (102 words)

	Wassermann's reaction (www.whonamedit.com)
		A complement-fixation test as a diagnostic of syphilis using blood serum or cerebrospinal fluid.
		It is a modification of the complement-fixation reaction by Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet (1870-1961) and Octave Gengou (1875-1957) in 1901.
		The "antigen" used is an alcoholic muscle extract, usually from a bull's heart.
	www.whonamedit.com /synd.cfm/2962.html (299 words)

	Pertussis
		It is caused by certain species of the bacterium Bordetella - usually B. pertussis, but somecases are caused by B. parapertussis.
		The disease was recognizably described as early as 1578, and B. pertussis wasisolated in pure culture in 1906 by JulesBordet and Octave Gengou.The complete B. pertussis genome of 4,086,186 base pairs was sequenced in 2002.
		The disease is characterized by a cough, fever, sneezing, and runny nose.
	www.lottery-news.net /dust44122-pertussis.html (331 words)

	WHOOPING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In 1578, the disease was first introduced even though it had been effecting children long before.
		“In 1906 at the Pasteur Institute, the French bacteriologists Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou isolated the bacteria that cause the disease,” later given the name Bordetella pertussis.
		Vaccine to avoid getting the whooping cough is given to children during the first 3 months of life.
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h453proj/child1/whoop.html (153 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		He became director of the Pasteur Institute in Brussels in 1901 and professor at the Univ. of Brussels in 1907.
		With Octave Gengou he devised (1900) the technique of the complement-fixation reaction (applied by Wassermann to the diagnosis of syphilis) and discovered (1906) the bacillus of whooping cough.
		For his work in immunity he received the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:Bordet-J (95 words)

	Whooping Cough History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The first step in this direction was taken by the Belgian bacteriologist Jules Bordet and his brother-in-law, Octave Gengou, in 1906.
		While carrying out research on antibody and antigen reactions in blood, Bordet and Gengou discovered the bacillus that causes whooping cough.
		The two scientists were then able to prepare a vaccine for the disease.
	www.bookrags.com /history/sciencehistory/whooping-cough-wsd (637 words)

	Cough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Common adverse events that occurred more frequently in the Ventavis arm were those known to be associated with inhaled prostacyclin administration and included flushing, headache, cough and jaw pain.
		as 1578, and its causative organism, Bordetella pertussis, was isolated in pure culture in 1906 by Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou.
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	bonose.com /Cough-160.html (962 words)

	pert
		Serological and immunological tests can also be used to test for Bordetella Pertussis.3
		Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet and Octave Gengou were the first to discover the Bordetella Pertussis bacterium in 1906.
		Bordet and Gengou developed a vaccine and named the bacterium after its founder, Bordet, naming it Bordetella.4 Pertussis means a thorough cough.7 Pertussis is also referred to as whooping cough because of the noise person makes when coughing.5
	www2.austincc.edu /microbio/2704k/pert.htm (540 words)

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