Who gives pertussis to infants? Source of infection for laboratory confirmed cases less than 12 months of age during an epidemic, Sydney, 2009

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2010

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Jardine, Andrew
Conaty, Stephen
Lowbridge, Chris
Staff, Michael
Vally, Hassan

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National Centre for Disease Control

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An important approach to protecting infants against pertussis is to provide a booster vaccination to close contacts, however this strategy requires a good understanding of infection sources to be effective. The objective of this study was to identify the

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Keywords: diphtheria pertussis tetanus vaccine; adolescent; adult; article; Australia; child; disease transmission; epidemic; family health; female; hospitalization; human; immunization; infant; male; mortality; pertussis; preschool child; risk factor; statistics;

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Communicable Diseases Intelligence

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