Background Pertussis (whooping cough) is a highly infective cause of cough that causes
significant morbidity and mortality. Existing case definitions include paroxysmal cough …

We have previously demonstrated that culturing periprosthetic tissue in blood culture bottles
(BCBs) improves sensitivity compared to conventional agar and broth culture methods for …

Objectives The objective of this systematic review is to investigate the use of Bayesian data
analysis in epidemiology in the past decade and particularly to evaluate the quality of …

Background In the context of reported resurgence of pertussis in the last decade,
researchers hypothesized that acellular (aP) pertussis vaccines elicit a shorter-lived …

Isolation of Bordetella pertussis and detection of the pertussis genome are not always
successful because of low bacterial loads in adult patients with pertussis. Antibodies against …

Objectives We assessed the value of the clinical symptoms included in the case definition of
pertussis in household contacts of laboratory-confirmed cases. Methods A prospective …