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Pertussis in infancy and the association with respiratory and cognitive disorders at toddler ageArchived

ECDC comment - 24 Oct 2011

The authors acknowledge several methodological limitations in this study, and the data refer to a small sample of children.

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Accelerating Control of Pertussis in England and WalesArchived

ECDC comment - 1 Feb 2012

Despite a reduction in pertussis among younger children and infants, rates of pertussis-related sickness and death remain high compared with rates for other vaccine-preventable diseases in England and Wales.

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Risk of febrile seizures and epilepsy after vaccination with diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, inactivated poliovirus, and Haemophilus influenzae type BArchived

ECDC comment - 28 Mar 2012

​This study, strong of an almost complete follow-up of all children born in Denmark from 2003 to 2008, provides evidence that the DTaP-IPV-HiB vaccine is not associated to an overall increased risk of febrile seizures and epilepsy.

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Waning Protection after Fifth Dose of Acellular Pertussis Vaccine in ChildrenArchived

ECDC comment - 24 Sep 2012

The authors assess the risk of pertussis in children in California relative to the time since the fifth dose of DTaP from 2006 to 2011 (this period included a large outbreak in 2010).

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Pertactin-Negative Variants of Bordetella pertussis in the United States

ECDC comment - 11 Feb 2013

​This letter to the editor raises the issue of the adaptation of B. pertussis to vaccine selection pressure as one of the reasons for the increase number of cases of whooping cough reported in several countries.

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ECDC to coordinate EUVAC.NET, the European surveillance network for numerous vaccine-preventable diseasesArchived

News - 14 Sep 2011

Starting 15 September 2011, ECDC will be coordinating the former EUVAC.NET network. It is a surveillance network covering measles, mumps, rubella, congenital rubella, pertussis and varicella EU Member States and three countries of the European Economic Area. Data will be hosted by the European Surveillance System (TESSy) at ECDC.

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