… the worldwide burden of pertussis disease in infants <6 months … maternal pertussis vaccination
in preventing infant pertussis … In the absence of licensed pertussis vaccines for newborns …

… coverage we propose a schedule that incorporates immunization of infants, preschoolers, …
of the performance of currently used pertussis vaccines, and we will be closer to new pertussis …

… ,34,35 and nonrandomized studies, 16,36 that have consistently documented lower
immunologic responses to infant pertussis vaccines among infants previously exposed to maternal …

… We restricted our study to mothers who had received whole-cell pertussis vaccines in
infancy, so our results may not be generalizable to the coming generation of mothers …

… infants worldwide received 3 doses of pertussis vaccine. WHO estimates that in 2008 global
vaccination against pertussis … protection following pertussis vaccination in developing coun…

… -component aP vaccine in 45 infants who were vaccinated at … group of 46 patients who were
only vaccinated at 3, 5 and 11 … % of infants who were immunized at birth with the aP vaccine …

… For more than 40 years, whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccination of infants and toddlers …
pertussis disease and 300,000 pertussis-related deaths every year globally, mostly among infants …

… the course of this study that in the immunization o~ older infants and children the combined
… It is very significant that pertussis did not occur in the immunized children with agglutinin …

… with high DTPa coverage could include adult-formulated booster pertussis vaccines for
adolescents and recent parents and/or accelerated pertussis vaccine schedules for infants. …

… pertussis vaccines in children <5 … of pertussis-containing vaccine in children aged <2 years
was 91.7% (95% CI, 74.5%–97.3%), but some 30% of cases had received whole cell vaccine…