By Kathryn M. Edwards, MD, and David R. Johnson, MD, MPH, Author at Clinical Advisor

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Rising to the challenge of pertussis persistence

By Kathryn M. Edwards, MD, and David R. Johnson, MD, MPH

June 2, 2007

Unimmunized infants are at greatest risk for the potentially serious, even fatal, complications of this disease. New prevention measures are available. In 1976, when 1,010 cases of pertussis were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it was the lowest annual total ever recorded.1 By 2004, however, that number had risen to…

By Kathryn M. Edwards, MD, and David R. Johnson, MD, MPH

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Rising to the challenge of pertussis persistence

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