Risk Factors for Pertussis in Young Infants During an Outbreak in Chicago in 1993

Because young infants are at highest risk for severe pertussis and death and are also too young to have received the minimal protective series of three doses of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine, we conducted a matched case-control study to assess risk factors for pertussis among young infa...

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Published in:Clinical infectious diseases 1996-03, Vol.22 (3), p.503-507
Main Authors: Izurieta, Hector S., Kenyon, Thomas A., Strebel, Peter M., Baughman, Andrew L., Shulman, Stanford T., Wharton, Melinda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age
Bacterial diseases
Bacterial diseases of the respiratory system
Biological and medical sciences
Bordetella pertussis
Case-Control Studies
Chicago
Child
Child, Preschool
Clinical Articles
Cough
Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Vaccine
Disease Outbreaks
Environmental Exposure
Epidemiology
Fathers
Female
Human bacterial diseases
Humans
Immunization
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Infants
Infectious diseases
Male
Medical sciences
Mothers
Predisposing factors
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Vaccination
Whooping cough
Whooping Cough - prevention & control
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Summary:Because young infants are at highest risk for severe pertussis and death and are also too young to have received the minimal protective series of three doses of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine, we conducted a matched case-control study to assess risk factors for pertussis among young infants during a pertussis outbreak in Chicago in 1993. We enrolled 39 cases
ISSN:1058-4838
1537-6591
DOI:10.1093/clinids/22.3.503