Circulation of pertussis and poor protection against diphtheria among middle-aged adults in 18 European countries

oleh: Guy Berbers, Pieter van Gageldonk, Jan van de Kassteele, Ursula Wiedermann, Isabelle Desombere, Tine Dalby, Julie Toubiana, Sotirios Tsiodras, Ildikó Paluska Ferencz, Kathryn Mullan, Algirdas Griskevicius, Tatjana Kolupajeva, Didrik Frimann Vestrheim, Paula Palminha, Odette Popovici, Lena Wehlin, Tamara Kastrin, Lucia Maďarová, Helen Campbell, Csaba Ködmön, Sabrina Bacci, Alex-Mikael Barkoff, Qiushui He, the Serosurveillance Study Team

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-05-01

Deskripsi

Recent outbreaks of pertussis have highlighted the importance of surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases. Here, the authors performed a cross-sectional seroprevalence study of pertussis, diphtheria, and tetanus in Europe and found evidence of circulation of pertussis in middle-aged adults.