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Pertussis is a highly contagious bacterial disease of the respiratory tract that can be prevented by vaccination. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the vaccine coverage rate for the third dose of a DPT-containing vaccine was 86%, with large disparities among
Lucia F. Bricks +2 more
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Pertussis Surveillance in Private Pediatric Practices, France, 2002–2006
To the Editor: In France, pertussis epidemiology has been extensively studied since 1993. Immunization of children with a highly efficacious pertussis whole-cell (Pw) vaccine (Sanofi Pasteur MSD, Lyon, France) for 40 years (since 1966) has reduced the incidence of pertussis.
Nicole Guiso +10 more
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ABSTRACT Purpose Pregnant women in Norway are offered routine ultrasound examinations in the first and second trimester during gestational weeks 11–13 and 17–19, but attendance rates are unknown. With the introduction of maternal pertussis vaccination, we sought to investigate whether ultrasound attendance during pregnancy could identify the target ...
Margrethe Greve‐Isdahl +7 more
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Abstract Vaccination is particularly important for people living with dementia (PLWD), who are at risk for meaningful declines in function and cognition after acute illnesses including vaccine‐preventable infections. Even so, vaccine uptake remains suboptimal. Optimal tailoring of messaging relies on awareness in advisory, decision‐making, and advocacy
Melissa K. Andrew, Shanna C. Trenaman
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ABSTRACT Background and Aims Africa has significant challenges in meeting its vaccination needs, including inadequate manufacturing capacity, infrastructure deficiencies, a scarcity of experienced personnel, regulatory hurdles, restricted access to technology and intellectual property.
Courage Chandipwisa +3 more
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Infections in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Evolving Risks and Prevention Strategies
ABSTRACT Infections remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), reflecting both intrinsic immune dysfunction and therapy‐related immunosuppression. The pathogenesis of immunodeficiency in CLL is multifactorial: neoplastic B cells impair humoral immunity, T cells are functionally exhausted, and ...
Enrica Antonia Martino +10 more
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The Senegal pertussis trial: safety and surveillance of adverse reactions.
In the Senegal pertussis trial, common adverse reactions were actively monitored during the pilot phase II study, while the frequency of severe adverse reactions was monitored as a secondary objective within the phase III efficacy trial. Since the trial was conducted in Niakhar, an area in rural West Africa under intensive surveillance, the safety ...
Préziosi, Marie-Pierre +3 more
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Review on pertussis case definitions: a need for reliable disease surveillance
Background 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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ObjectiveTo analyze the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of surveillance cases in a sentinel hospital for pertussis in Jiangxi Province in 2019, and to provide corresponding references for the prevention and control of pertussis.MethodsCase ...
WU Hui +5 more
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The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention document a raw proxy for counts of pertussis cases in the U.S., and the Project Tycho (PT) database provides an improved source of these weekly data.
Christopher H. Arehart +2 more
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