Abstract
Pertussis is an infectious disease that affects the upper respiratory tract, caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Despite being vaccine-preventable, it was included in the category of re-emerging diseases in the last decade after an increase in cases since 1990 worldwide. B. pertussis has 78 genes in its genome that encode proteins from the TTT (Tripartite Tricarboxylate Transpor…