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Pertussis Vaccines
s of references provided in the position paper and GRADE tables Amirthalingam G, Andrews N, Campbell H, Ribeiro S, Kara E, Donegan K, et al. Effectiveness of maternal pertussis vaccination in England: an observational study. Lancet 2014 Oct 25; 384(9953):1521-1528. BACKGROUND: In October, 2012, a pertussis vaccination programme for pregnant women was introduced in response to an outbreak acro...
متن کاملBordetella pertussis and pertussis vaccines.
Bordetella pertussis is a human-specific pathogen that causes whooping cough. The use of pertussis whole-cell vaccines in infants and toddlers led to decreased circulation of the bacterium in the child population and a marked decrease in the incidence of the disease. However, vaccine does not result in life-long immunity; indeed, the circulation of the bacterium has not been controlled in the a...
متن کاملBordetella pertussis polymorphism and pertussis vaccines.
The topic of the article by Bottero et al. (1) is an important one, a bacterial vaccine for a preventable disease, pertussis. Many articles have been published on the subject in the last 10 years (for a review, see reference 6). In their study, Bottero et al. neither followed the recommendations of consensus meetings nor used published nomenclature. Furthermore, they compared vaccines that cann...
متن کاملWhy do pertussis vaccines fail?
The first reason, and perhaps the most important one, is that our estimates of vaccine efficacy have been inflated because of case definition.3–11 At the time of the pediatric diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine efficacy trials in the early 1990s, it was hoped that a universal case definition could be developed so that the results of the various trials could be...
متن کاملAcellular pertussis vaccines pertinent issues.
Efficacy of whole cell pertussis vaccines (wP) in humans correlates with (and hence is measured by) the ‘mouse protection test’, wherein vaccinated mice are challenged with live B. pertussis. This test does not work similarly with acellular pertussis vaccines (aP); hence antibody levels to various antigens are measured as a surrogate marker of efficacy. This difference between the direct as com...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Expert Review of Vaccines
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1476-0584,1744-8395
DOI: 10.1586/14760584.2014.946910