Pertussis: microbiology, disease, treatment, and prevention

PE Kilgore, AM Salim, MJ Zervos… - Clinical microbiology …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pertussis is a severe respiratory infection caused by Bordetella pertussis, and in 2008,
pertussis was associated with an estimated 16 million cases and 195,000 deaths globally …

[HTML][HTML] Vertically transferred immunity in neonates: mothers, mechanisms and mediators

M Albrecht, PC Arck - Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Over the last years, an increasing number of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable infectious
diseases has been reported. Besides elderly and immunocompromised individuals …

COVID‐19 vaccine acceptance in pregnant women

S Goncu Ayhan, D Oluklu, A Atalay… - … of Gynecology & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To determine vaccine acceptance and hesitancy attitudes toward coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID‐19) vaccines in pregnant women. Methods Three hundred pregnant …

The coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine in pregnancy: risks, benefits, and recommendations

IA Stafford, JG Parchem, BM Sibai - American Journal of Obstetrics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The coronavirus disease 2019 has caused over 2 million deaths worldwide, with over
412,000 deaths reported in Unites States. To date, at least 57,786 pregnant women in the …

Safety and immunogenicity of tetanus diphtheria and acellular pertussis (Tdap) immunization during pregnancy in mothers and infants: a randomized clinical trial

FM Munoz, NH Bond, M Maccato, P Pinell, HA Hammill… - Jama, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Maternal immunization with tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and
acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine could prevent infant pertussis. Objective To evaluate the …

Sustained effectiveness of the maternal pertussis immunization program in England 3 years following introduction

G Amirthalingam, H Campbell, S Ribeiro… - Clinical Infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The effectiveness of maternal immunization in preventing infant pertussis was first
demonstrated in England, 1 year after the program using diphtheria–tetanus–5-component …

Effectiveness of vaccination during pregnancy to prevent infant pertussis

R Baxter, J Bartlett, B Fireman, E Lewis, NP Klein - Pediatrics, 2017 - publications.aap.org
BACKGROUND: Vaccination against pertussis during pregnancy is recommended to protect
newborns, yet there is limited information about the effectiveness of maternal tetanus toxoid …

Safety of pertussis vaccination in pregnant women in UK: observational study

K Donegan, B King, P Bryan - Bmj, 2014 - bmj.com
Objective To examine the safety of pertussis vaccination in pregnancy. Design
Observational cohort study. Setting The UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Participants …

Maternal immunization earlier in pregnancy maximizes antibody transfer and expected infant seropositivity against pertussis

CS Eberhardt, G Blanchard-Rohner… - Clinical Infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. Maternal immunization against pertussis is currently recommended after the
26th gestational week (GW). Data on the optimal timing of maternal immunization are …

[HTML][HTML] Malaria surveillance—United States, 2015

KE Mace - MMWR. Surveillance Summaries, 2018 - cdc.gov
Abstract Problem/Condition: Malaria in humans is caused by intraerythrocytic protozoa of the
genus Plasmodium. These parasites are transmitted by the bite of an infective female …