ADSL and bacterial infectious disease: Neutrophils are known to mediate their function against bacterial infection in a number of ways, including antibody-mediated opsonization, neutrophil extracellular traps (NET) formation (NETosis) or through the production of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs).49 Although neutrophils can phagocytose and kill B. pertussis via antibody and complement and we do not rule this out, our data point to alternative mechanisms.