I found this "Treatment with erythromycin does not alter the course of disease, but reduces the infectious period to 5 to 10 days." and this
"Although B pertussis is susceptible in vitro to several antibiotics, such as tetracycline, erythromycin, and chloramphenicol, the efficacy of these drugs in patients during the paroxysmal phase is not convincing. "
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7813/
Reducing the infections period does not equal killing the organism.
Basically antibiotics are administered because they don't know what else to do. In my opinion.
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