Pertussis: School and health professionals
Health care professionals
- Report this disease within 1 working day.
- Pertussis specimen collection instructions.
- Guidance on treatment for pertussis cases and contacts.
- CDC: Best practices for health care professionals on the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for diagnosing pertussis.
- Pertussis information sheet.
- Parapertussis fact sheet
- Guidance for Epidemiological Linkages
- Interpreting Pertussis Serology
- Pertussis Laboratory Testing
Public health professionals
- Communicable Disease Manual.
- Pertussis case management timeline.
- Pertussis case report form.
- Enhanced pertussis surveillance case report form for metropolitan Denver.
- Algorithm for public health to assess the need to send school letters after a pertussis case is identified.
- Guidelines for pertussis post-exposure prophylaxis and public health investigations in Colorado.
- Parapertussis fact sheet
- Pertussis training video.
School and child care professionals