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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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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Fever Among Pertussis Cases Reported Through Enhanced Pertussis Surveillance, 2015–2022 [PDF]
Open Forum Infectious DiseasesAbstract 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
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Pertussis outbreak detected by active surveillance in Cyprus in 2003 [PDF]
Eurosurveillance, 2007 Pertussis is a disease of substantial public health importance that still lacks an efficient surveillance system. It has been a notifiable disease in Cyprus since 1930, and has had an incidence rate of 1 per 100,000 persons during the last 10 years. In 2001, the Greece-Cyprus Paediatric Surveillance Unit (GCPSU) was established with the aim of active ...
Theodoridou, M. +4 more
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Evaluation of the Completeness and Timeliness of the Infant Pertussis Surveillance System in the Czech Republic in 2015, 2017 and 2019 [PDF]
Slovenian Journal of Public Health, 2023 The completeness and timeliness of the pertussis questionnaire-based enhanced surveillance system (ESS) among infants and reported pertussis data within the electronic nationwide notification system (NNS) in the years 2015, 2017 and 2019 were evaluated ...
LIPTÁKOVÁ Monika +5 more
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Isolate-Based Surveillance of Bordetella pertussis, Austria, 2018–2020 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 Pertussis is a vaccine-preventable disease, and its recent resurgence might be attributable to the emergence of strains that differ genetically from the vaccine strain.
Adriana Cabal +14 more
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The impact of multiplex panel testing on ascertainment of pertussis-attributable, non-infant deaths: national surveillance from England [PDF]
Journal of Clinical MicrobiologyUnderstanding the burden of pertussis and pertussis-related mortality is important in enabling a better understanding of population vulnerability and supporting vaccination program planning.
Catherine Sandford Alber +6 more
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SARS-CoV-2 coinfections among pertussis cases identified through the Enhanced Pertussis Surveillance system in the United States, January 2020-February 2023. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundBacterial and viral respiratory coinfections are common, but the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infections among pertussis cases has not been estimated.
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Emergence of Macrolide-Resistant Bordetella pertussis, Peru, 2025 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious DiseasesWe report the emergence of macrolide-resistant Bordetella pertussis during a pertussis outbreak in Peru. Among 68 cases, 31% carried the A2047G gene mutation, conferring resistance to macrolides.
Eduardo Juscamayta-López +12 more
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