Pertussis is increasingly recognized as a source of infection in adults who then commonly
infect young children. Immunity to illness caused by Bordetella pertussis is not long-lived, so …

BACKGROUND: Pertussis is an acute infectious illness, caused by the bacteria Bordetella
pertussis and commonly known as “whooping cough”. Waning immunity after vaccination or …

Background Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has circulated in China and caused
yearly outbreak. To understand the transmission of the disease and to assess the spatial …

Since the 1980s, the occurrence of pertussis cases in developed countries has increased
and shifted towards older age groups. This resurgence follows 30 years of intense mass …

Short-term forecast of pertussis incidence is helpful for advanced warning and planning
resource needs for future epidemics. By utilizing the Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving …

OBJECTIVE: Report the incidence, epidemiology, clinical features, death, and vaccination
status of patients with whooping cough and perform genotypic characterization of isolates of …

Introduction In France, three complementary surveillance networks involving hospitals and
paediatrician practices currently allow pertussis surveillance among infants (< 1 year old) …

Extensive local reactions are recognized to occur after administration of the fourth and fifth
booster doses of diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccines. The incidence of …

Background: An acellular preschool booster vaccination against pertussis has been
included in the National Immunization Programme in The Netherlands, since November …

To gain insight into pertussis disease dynamics, we studied age-specific long-term
periodicity and seasonality of pertussis in The Netherlands. Hierarchical time-series models …