Diarrhoea and pneumonia are the leading infectious causes of childhood morbidity and
mortality. We comprehensively reviewed the epidemiology of childhood diarrhoea and …

The epidemiology of whooping cough (pertussis) remains enigmatic. A leading cause of
infant mortality globally, its resurgence in several developed nations—despite the …

Objective To examine the safety of pertussis vaccination in pregnancy. Design
Observational cohort study. Setting The UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Participants …

Community-based surveys show that parentalreported cough as an isolated symptom has a
high prevalence. 2 3 Reported cough without colds has a prevalence of 28% in boys and …

Bordetella pertussis–the cause of pertussis or whooping cough–is an exclusively human
pathogen. Disease elimination by vaccination should, therefore, be possible, but has proved …

Vaccination during pregnancy has been recommended in some countries as a means to
protect young infants from severe infection. Nevertheless, many aspects are still unknown …

Objective To compare an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model with a
model that combines ARIMA with the Elman recurrent neural network (ARIMA-ERNN) in …

Recent much-publicized increases in pertussis case reports in some countries with high
vaccine coverage have raised concerns about its current and future control. The ubiquity of …

In 2005, two tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis (Tdap)
vaccines were licensed and recommended for use in adults and adolescents in the United …

As more original molecular protocols and subsequent modifications are described in the
literature, it has become difficult for those not directly involved in the development of these …