Research Abstract
Human Study
Vaccinated children and adults may serve as reservoirs for silent pertussis infection and become potential transmitters to unprotected infants.
Pertussis infection in fully vaccinated children in day-care centers, Israel.
I Srugo,
D Benilevi,
R Madeb,
Stan Shapiro,
T Shohat,
E Somekh,
Y Rimmar,
V Gershtein,
R Gershtein,
E Marva,
N Lahat
Emerg Infect Dis
Sep 1, 2000
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Abstract
We tested 46 fully vaccinated children in two day-care centers in Israel who were exposed to a fatal case of pertussis infection. Only two of five children who tested positive for Bordetella pertussis met the World Health Organization's case definition for pertussis. Vaccinated children may be asymptomatic reservoirs for infection.
Affiliation
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel. [email protected]
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- PubMed ID:
- 10998384
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