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Pertussis Surveillance in Canada: Trends to 2012
Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2014 The purpose of this report is to provide a summary of the pertussis activity in Canada.A descriptive analysis of pertussis incidence by year, age group, gender and province/territory was conducted using national surveillance data, clinical administrative data and vital statistics data.Pertussis is an endemic cyclical disease in Canada with peaks in ...
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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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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.
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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 +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 +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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BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Pertussis is a re-emerging disease worldwide despite its high vaccination coverage. European and Latin-American countries have used different surveillance and vaccination policies against pertussis. We compared the epidemiology of this disease
Rubén Solano +7 more
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Swiss Medical Weekly, 2021 Summary AIMS OF THE STUDY: Surveillance of pertussis at a national level is important to collect information on the epidemiology of the disease and to design optimal immunisation strategies.
Jana Zumstein, Ulrich Heininger
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PLoS ONE, 2020 BackgroundClinical criteria for pertussis diagnosis and clinical case definitions for surveillance are based on a cough lasting two or more weeks. As several pertussis cases seek care earlier, a clinical tool independent of cough duration may support ...
Alberto Eugenio Tozzi +10 more
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BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Disease surveillance is central to the public health understanding of pertussis epidemiology. In Canada, public reporting practices have significantly changed over time, creating challenges in accurately characterizing pertussis epidemiology ...
Edward Thommes +5 more
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