Infectious Diseases Information Center
Tdap exposure is linked to a reduced risk for upper respiratory, gastrointestinal infections in children up to 6 years of age.
Infectious Diseases Information Center
The 2021 updates to the child and adolescent immunization schedule are designed to make immunization easier for parents and health care providers.
Infectious Diseases Information Center
Experts including AANP President Sophia L. Thomas, DNP, discuss ways to increase childhood immunization uptake and catch-up vaccines.
Infectious Diseases Information Center
Researchers evaluated the immunogenicity and reactogenicity of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in pregnant and lactating women compared with women who were not pregnant and those who were naturally infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy.
Vaccine Information Center
The ACIP emphasizes the importance of routine vaccinations during the pandemic to prevent diseases.
Web Exclusives
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.
Consultations
When should an adult with a spasmodic upper-respiratory infection be swabbed for pertussis?
Infectious Diseases
OVERVIEW: What every practitioner needs to know Pertussis is an acute respiratory tract infection caused by Bordetella pertussis and typified by a protracted paroxysmal cough illness. B. pertussis is the sole cause of epidemic pertussis and the usual cause of sporadic pertussis. Neither the disease nor immunization provides lifetime protection. Currently, worldwide prevalence is dampened…
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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.
