General Medicine
January FDA approvals include treatments for mood disorders, pertussis in infants, Alzheimer disease, and type 2 diabetes.
Drug Monograph
Tetanus and reduced diphtheria toxoids, acellular pertussis vaccine; aluminum phosphate adsorbed; susp for IM inj; contains 2-phenoxyethanol and traces of formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde.
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Infectious Diseases Information Center
Although this year’s ultra-high rates of RSV hospitalizations have recently fallen, the tripledemic of RSV, COVID-19, and influenza continues throughout the holiday season.
Web Exclusives
The ACOG has endorsed the CDC's updated guidelines for administering pertussis vaccine during each pregnancy.
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Among kids at several UK general practices, 20% had evidence of recent pertussis infection.
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Teens who received DTaP were six times more likely to get pertussis during the 2010-2011 California outbreak than those given DTwP.
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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…
Consultations
When should an adult with a spasmodic upper-respiratory infection be swabbed for pertussis?
Web Exclusives
During the first six months of 2012, Washington state reported 2,520 pertussis cases -- a 1,300% increase from the first six months of 2011, the CDC reports.
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Analyses reveal 2011-2012 U.S. pertussis isolates were negative for pertactin, a virulence factor that is a component of the current accellular vaccine.