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ReviewCurrent opinion in pediatrics2025

Resurgence of pertussis: whopping the '100-day cough'.

Celia D C Christie

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Review in Current opinion in pediatrics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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Celia D C ChristieDepartment of Child (Pediatrics) and Adolescent Health, (Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health), University of the West Indies.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewAgainst the WHO's report of 84% diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) primary vaccination coverage globally, the resurgence of pertussis (whooping cough), contributing factors and measures to control it are described. RECENT

findingsUSA and China, with 94-97% primary DPT immunization uptake, reported a 6-fold and 65-fold increase in pertussis between two time periods in 2023 and 2024. The global post-COVID-19 pertussis epidemic is trending towards a shift from infants towards older persons. Macrolide resistance is prevalent in 98% of Bordetella pertussis strains in China and is now reported from other countries. Pertactin-deficient mutant acellular pertussis vaccine-evasive strains are now transmitted in older children and adults. Pertactin-producing B. pertussis is causing fulminant pertussis in newborns whose mothers were not immunized in pregnancy and in under-immunized infants. Circulating epidemic strains of B. pertussis were discordant to those contained in whole-cell (Bp137) pertussis vaccine. The pertussis resurgence maybe explained by increased case ascertainment and reporting, mutant B. pertussis strains with immune escape from acellular and whole cell vaccines, and/or macrolides, waning natural, or vaccine-induced immunity and COVID-19 pandemic factors. SUMMARY: Pertussis maybe curtailed with public education, active clinical and microbiological surveillance, appropriate antimicrobial treatment and prophylaxis, public health reporting, infection control and optimized immunizations to reduce attributable morbidity and mortality.

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COVID-19Whooping CoughAnti-Bacterial AgentsBordetella pertussisChildGlobal HealthHumansInfantInfant, NewbornPertussis VaccineSARS-CoV-2Vaccination CoverageAnti-Bacterial AgentsPertussis Vaccine100-day coughacellular pertussis vaccineCOVID-19epidemicimmunitymacrolide antibioticspertussiswhole cell pertussis vaccinewhooping cough

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