Observational studyHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2021
Pertussis in Italy: how to protect the "unprotectable"?
Observational study in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Improved pertussis vaccine uptake following in-hospital administration among pregnant women living with HIV.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2026Observational
- Clinical characteristics and prognosis of exchange transfusion in infants with severe pertussis.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Pertussis in the Tshwane District, Gauteng province, South Africa: A cross-sectional study.Journal of public health in Africa · 2025Article
- Trend of pathogens and respiratory co-infections in the province of Messina: from pediatric age to senescence.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- Whooping Cough Cases Increase in Central Italy after COVID-19 Pandemic.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the Completeness and Timeliness of the Infant Pertussis Surveillance System in the Czech Republic in 2015, 2017 and 2019.Zdravstveno varstvo · 2023Article
- Assessment of Pertussis Underreporting in Italy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- [Epidemiological profile of pertussis in infants in Casablanca from 2012 to 2019].The Pan African medical journal · 2023Article
- Sero-Epidemiological Study ofVaccines · 2022Article
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Abstract
Whooping cough continues to be an important public health issue despite high levels of vaccination coverage with acellular pertussis vaccine. Young unimmunized infants represent the most vulnerable group with the highest rates of complications and death. As infant-specific pertussis epidemiologic data, especially among neonates, in Italy were limited, a retrospective observational study of hospitalizations for whooping cough in Italian infants aged <12 months between 2007 and 2018 was conducted to address this knowledge gap. The temporal trend of rates, also stratified for age classes according to the expected age for the administration of vaccine doses, were analyzed by the slope of the regression line. The mean age at the time of admission was 92 d (±64). A clear seasonal pattern in the occurrence of pertussis hospitalizations with a summer peak was observed. Infants younger than 3 months old had the highest hospitalization rates (169 x 100000 infants on average), with a significant rising trend of 9 x 100000 infants on average per year. Limiting the analysis to
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