Pertussis or whooping cough has persisted and resurged in the face of vaccination and has
become one of the most prevalent vaccine-preventable diseases in Western countries. The …

Pertussis toxin and adenylate cyclase toxin are two important virulence factors of Bordetella
pertussis, the bacterial cause of the respiratory disease pertussis or whooping cough. In …

Background. We conducted a population-based, nation-wide, prospective study to identify
who introduced pertussis into the household of infants aged⩽ 6 months admitted to the …

Before childhood vaccination was introduced in the 1950s, pertussis or whooping cough
was a major cause of infant death worldwide. Widespread vaccination of children was …

Background In many countries, the reported pertussis has increased despite high
vaccination coverage. However, accurate determination of the burden of disease is …

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 …

OBJECTIVE. The objective of this study was to determine if children who contracted
pertussis infection were more likely to have parents who refused pertussis vaccinations than …

Pertussis is a respiratory infectious disease that has been resurged during the last decades.
The change from the traditional multi-antigen whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccines to acellular …

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a highly contagious, acute respiratory disease of humans
that is caused by the Gram-negative bacterial pathogen Bordetella pertussis. In the face of …

Investigations into the emergence of pertactin-deficient Bordetella pertussis isolates in six
European countries, 1996 to 2012 Page 1 1 www.eurosurveillance.org Research articles …