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Pertussis surveillance in a children hospital in Bangkok, Thailand [PDF]

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
To investigate the incidence, clinical characteristics and cost associated with pertussis in Thai children with persistent cough.A prospective study was conducted among children aged 0-18 years with persistent cough for ≥7days with at least one of the following: paroxysm, inspiratory whooping, or post-tussive emesis.
Piyarat Suntarattiwong, Kunlayanut Kanjanabura, Thanawan Laopipattana, Anusak Kerdsin, Wantana Paveenkittiporn, Tawee Chotpitayasunondh   +5 more
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Pertussis surveillance by small serosurveys of blood donors [PDF]

Epidemiology and Infection, 2018
AbstractSerosurveys have established data about the distribution of immunoglobulin G (IgG)-antibodies to pertussis toxin (PT) in various populations. We tried to detect whether small serosurveys in blood donors could serve as a simple and inexpensive means to collect information about the circulation ofBordetella pertussis.
N. Kennerknecht, M. Riffelmann, U. Voelker, C. H. Wirsing von König   +3 more
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Circulation of pertussis and poor protection against diphtheria among middle-aged adults in 18 European countries

Nature Communications, 2021
Recent outbreaks of pertussis have highlighted the importance of surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases. Here, the authors performed a cross-sectional seroprevalence study of pertussis, diphtheria, and tetanus in Europe and found evidence of ...
Guy Berbers, Pieter van Gageldonk, Jan van de Kassteele, Ursula Wiedermann, Isabelle Desombere, Tine Dalby, Julie Toubiana, Sotirios Tsiodras, Ildikó Paluska Ferencz, Kathryn Mullan, Algirdas Griskevicius, Tatjana Kolupajeva, Didrik Frimann Vestrheim, Paula Palminha, Odette Popovici, Lena Wehlin, Tamara Kastrin, Lucia Maďarová, Helen Campbell, Csaba Ködmön, Sabrina Bacci, Alex-Mikael Barkoff, Qiushui He, the Serosurveillance Study Team   +23 more
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Pertussis in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations: epidemiology and challenges

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
Pertussis is a highly infectious respiratory disease caused by Bordetella pertussis. Infants and young children are particularly at risk of severe and life-threatening disease. Infectious older individuals may transmit Bordetella pertussis to unprotected
Usa Thisyakorn, Terapong Tantawichien, Chule Thisyakorn, Philippe Buchy   +3 more
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Evaluation of the diagnostic utility of the new clinical case definition of pertussis - experience from sentinel and hospital-based pertussis surveillance [PDF]

Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2019
Introduction/Objective. Global surveillance systems use different clinical case definitions of pertussis. The aim of this study was to identify sign and symptom combinations with best relation with laboratory confirmed pertussis. Methods.
Ristić Mioljub, Stojanović Vesna D., Petrović Vladimir, Heininger Ulrich   +3 more
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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., Hadjipanagis, A., Persianis, N., Makri, S., Hadjichristodoulou, C.   +4 more
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The interdisciplinary Meeting of Experts’s Resolution «Unresolved Questions of Pertussis Epidemiology in the Russian Federation and the New Possibilities for Vaccination»

Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2018
Key Russian experts representing applied medicine, scientific and educational organizations related to the vaccination hold the meeting on June 13 in Moscow.
Article Editorial
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Comparative Epidemiologic Characteristics of Pertussis in 10 Central and Eastern European Countries, 2000-2013.

PLoS ONE, 2016
We undertook an epidemiological survey of the annual incidence of pertussis reported from 2000 to 2013 in ten Central and Eastern European countries to ascertain whether increased pertussis reports in some countries share common underlying drivers or ...
Ulrich Heininger, Philippe André, Roman Chlibek, Zuzana Kristufkova, Kuulo Kutsar, Atanas Mangarov, Zsófia Mészner, Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, Vladimir Petrović, Roman Prymula, Vytautas Usonis, Dace Zavadska   +11 more
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Using open source data to estimate the global epidemiology of pertussis

Global Biosecurity, 2020
Introduction: Pertussis is a highly infectious disease that remains endemic despite a rising vaccination coverage rates globally. Due to the lack of global surveillance data for pertussis, the unconventional use of open-source data gives a glimpse into ...
Haley Stone, Aye Moa, C Raina MacIntyre, Abrar A Chughtai   +3 more
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The re-emergence of pertussis: implications for diagnosis and surveillance [PDF]

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin, 2008
Pertussis, or whooping cough, a highly contagious disease caused by Bordetella pertussis, is making a comeback globally and nationally in spite of reasonable vaccination coverage. This paper provides an update on laboratory testing methods that assist the confirmation of clinical disease and investigation of outbreaks.
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