Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Committee on
Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics recently recommended 3 that all …

ABSTRACT Infanrix-IPV (GSK, Belgium) is a diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, and
inactivated poliovirus combination vaccine (DTaP-IPV) licensed in many countries including …

Combination vaccines consisting of multiple vaccine antigens delivered in a single injection
greatly simplify vaccine administration and are a high priority for parents, physicians and …

Objective. To compare the safety and immunogenicity of 12 different acellular pertussis
vaccines combined with diphtheria and tetanus toxoids (DTaP) with one licensed diphtheria …

Importance There is accumulating literature on waning acellular pertussis vaccine–induced
immunity, confirming the results of studies assessing the duration of protection of pertussis …

Compared with older children and adults, infants aged < 12 months have substantially
higher rates of pertussis and the largest burden of pertussis-related deaths. Since 2004, a …

Of 342 cases with pertussis notified from 1986 through 1989 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, 331
(96.8%) were unimmunized children. To confirm the clinical efficacy of the acellular pertussis …

In spring of 2004, a total of 432 high school students (239 in grade 9, 178 in grade 12, and
15 with no grade specified) in Yukon Territory, Canada were vaccinated with the new …

Pertussis can be fatal for infants. The best way to prevent infant pertussis is to promote adult
immunization. However, Tdap has not been licensed in Japan, so we investigated the effect …

Objective. To describe obstetricians′ perspectives related to tetanus‐diphtheria‐acellular
pertussis (Tdap) vaccination of mothers and other adults in close contact with infants …