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Human Vaccines & ImmunotherapeuticsPertussis, a respiratory disease caused by Bordetella pertussis, remains a global health challenge despite decades of vaccination. The inclusion of diphtheria, tetanus, and whole-cell pertussis (DTwP) vaccines in the World Health Organization (WHO ...
Sijia Wang, Shimo Zhang, Jue Liu
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Review on pertussis case definitions: a need for reliable disease surveillance [PDF]
BMC Infectious DiseasesBackground Existing clinical case definitions of pertussis are decades old and mainly rely on clinical signs and symptoms in infants and children. In the recent past, an age shift of pertussis towards adolescents and adults has been noted and disease ...
Jana Zumstein, Ulrich Heininger
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015 Despite high coverage with pertussis-containing vaccines, pertussis remains endemic to the United States. There have been increases in reported cases in recent years, punctuated by striking epidemics and shifting epidemiology, both of which raise ...
Tami H. Skoff +2 more
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Diphtheria and pertussis outbreaks in the Americas: a scoping review of epidemiology, vaccination trends and control strategies, 2013–2024 [PDF]
BMJ Public HealthObjectives To describe the themes identified in the epidemiology of diphtheria and pertussis outbreaks in the Americas (2013–2024), with a particular focus on vaccination coverage, trends and control strategies.Design Scoping review.Data sources ...
Marcela Contreras +6 more
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The Ongoing Challenge of Pertussis in Eastern and Northern Europe: Recommendations from the Global Pertussis Initiative [PDF]
Infectious Diseases and TherapyPertussis (whooping cough), a vaccine-preventable disease that affects people of any age, has resurged globally after the COVID-19 pandemic. Key reasons for recent pertussis outbreaks include suboptimal pertussis vaccination coverage (particularly for ...
Mine Durusu Tanriover +14 more
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Pertussis, anti-Bordetella pertussis toxin, vaccination, and clinical surveillance
Muller Journal of Medical Sciences and Research, 2023 Amnuay Kleebayoon, Viroj Wiwanitkit
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Reemergence of Pertussis in the Highly Vaccinated Population of The Netherlands: Observations on Surveillance Data [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2000 We analyzed pertussis reporting, death, hospitalization, and serodiagnostic data from 1976 to 1998 to help explain the cause of the 1996 pertussis outbreak in the Netherlands. The unexpected outbreak was detected by an increase in pertussis reporting and
Hester E. de Melker +5 more
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Fever Among Pertussis Cases Reported Through Enhanced Pertussis Surveillance, 2015-2022. [PDF]
Open Forum Infect DisAbstract Fever is not considered a typical presentation of pertussis. We characterized fever among 7840 pertussis cases from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Enhanced Pertussis Surveillance with cough onset from 2015 to 2022. Ten percent of cases had a reported fever. The presence of fever should not rule out pertussis as
Hughes MM +10 more
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eLife, 2021 Recent pertussis resurgence in numerous countries may be driven by asymptomatic infections. Most pertussis surveillance studies are cross-sectional and cannot distinguish asymptomatic from pre-symptomatic infections.
Christopher J Gill +8 more
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Pertussis incidence rates in Novi Sad (Serbia) before and during improved surveillance [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2017 Introduction/Objective. The Global Pertussis Initiative (GPI) proposed clinical case definitions for pertussis diagnosis in three different age cohorts in order to improve surveillance of pertussis especially in older children, adolescents, and adults ...
Petrović Vladimir +5 more
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