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Whooping Cough Vaccines
Researchers from Sanofi Pasteur publish findings in whooping cough vaccines
June 4th, 2008
A report, 'Adult pertussis vaccination strategies and their impact on pertussis in the United States: evaluation of routine and targeted (cocoon) strategies,' is newly published data in Epidemiology and Infection. According to a study from Lyon, France, "A compartmental, age-structured mathematical model was developed and recent US pertussis epidemiology data were used to evaluate the impact on pertussis infection rates of routine and targeted adult immunization strategies. Model simulations predict that the implementation of adolescent immunization only could reverse the current rise in pertussis infection rates but may lead to a resurgence of pertussis in subsequent...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-06-04)
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