[Features of Bordetella pertussis, Bordetella spp. infection and whopping cough in Córdoba province, Argentina].

Introduction: Whooping cough is a re-emerging infection in the world and Latin America.

Objective: It was considered relevant to investigate the clinical and epidemiological profile of Bordetella spp. and Bordetella pertussis infection in Córdoba province, Argentina; evaluating, at the same time, the co-infection with virus producing respiratory infections that may be confused with whooping cough.

[Isolation of environmental mycobacteria from soils of Córdoba city Argentina].

The interest for the research on enviromental mycobacteria has risen over the last decades, in part, due to a significant incidence rate rise. Reports from all over the world address the soil as the major source for human contamination. In Argentina two documents report the prevalence of atypical mycobacteriosis at Córdoba (1997), and the isolation of enviromental mycobacteria from soils of the Province of La Pampa (1999) respectively.