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Genomic surveillance reveals global spread of macrolide-resistant Bordetella pertussis linked to vaccine changes [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology
The resurgence of whooping cough in regions utilizing acellular pertussis vaccines underscores emerging public health challenges. Here, we characterized 178 Bordetella pertussis isolates collected from patients across all age groups in Shanghai (2018 ...
Zhen Xu, Zhuoying Huang, Lingyue Yuan, Huanyu Wu, Xin Chen, Min Chen, Yuan Zhuang, Jun Feng   +7 more
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Localized Outbreak of Macrolide-Resistant Pertussis in Infants, Japan, March–May 2025 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
A localized pertussis outbreak involving 10 unvaccinated infants occurred in Kumamoto, Japan, during March–May 2025. Nine infants were admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit, 6 of whom received a confirmed diagnosis of macrolide-resistant ...
Takafumi Obara, Kyoko Kano, Takashi Yorifuji, Kohei Tsukahara, Naoki Yogo, Yuichiro Muto, Tetsuya Yumoto, Hiromichi Naito, Atsunori Nakao, Katsuki Hirai   +9 more
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Asymptomatic Bordetella pertussis infections in a longitudinal cohort of young African infants and their mothers

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, Christian E Gunning, William B MacLeod, Lawrence Mwananyanda, Donald M Thea, Rachel C Pieciak, Geoffrey Kwenda, Zacharia Mupila, Pejman Rohani   +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, Šeguljev Zorica, Ristić Mioljub, Radosavljević Biljana, Đilas Milan, Heininger Ulrich   +5 more
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Assessing the Underestimation of Adult Pertussis Disease in Five Latin American Countries

Infectious Diseases and Therapy, 2023
Introduction Pertussis, a contagious respiratory disease, is underreported in adults. The study objective was to quantify underestimation of pertussis cases in adults aged ≥ 50 years in five Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico ...
Adriana Guzman-Holst, Jorge A. Gomez, Otavio Cintra, Desirée Van Oorschot, Nicolas Jamet, Javier Nieto-Guevara   +5 more
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Pertussis post-exposure prophylaxis among household contacts: a cost-utility analysis. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Recent pertussis outbreaks have prompted re-examination of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) strategies, when immunization is not immediately protective.
Crowcroft, Natasha S, Gurol-Urganci, Ipek, Sander, Beate, Thampi, Nisha   +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 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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