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Vacunas acelulares (DTPa/dTpa) contra la tos ferina: duración de la protección
- Source :
- Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. 34:23-28
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- INTRODUCTION An increase in whooping cough in most of the developed countries has been detected in the last decade. OBJECTIVE To determine whether the administration of dTpa vaccine instead of DTPa fifth dose is contributing to the appearance of these cases. METHODS A descriptive study based on cases of whooping cough reported during an epidemic period in the city of Alicante in the first 5 months of 2014. Only pertussis cases confirmed by PCR were included in the study, and only those vaccinated with 5 doses were included in the analysis of the period of protection. RESULTS A total of 104 cases of pertussis confirmed by PCR were reported, with 85 cases (82%) having had 5 doses of vaccine. The mean time and standard deviation (SD) of protection was 2.1±1.1 years with dTpa, and 5.1±1.5 years with DTPa (p
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
respiratory system
medicine.disease
Vaccination
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Internal medicine
Epidemiology
cardiovascular system
medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Acellular vaccines
business
Tos ferina
Whooping cough
Diphtheria-Tetanus-acellular Pertussis Vaccines
circulatory and respiratory physiology
030215 immunology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0213005X
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........8974b732beddbd6abfe67af59be4782b