Development of improved vaccines against whooping cough: current status.

@article{Marzouqi2010DevelopmentOI,
  title={Development of improved vaccines against whooping cough: current status.},
  author={Ibrahim Marzouqi and Peter Richmond and Scott R Fry and John D. Wetherall and Trilochan Kanwaljit Singh Mukkur},
  journal={Human vaccines},
  year={2010},
  volume={6 7},
  pages={
          543-53
        }
}

• Ibrahim Marzouqi, Peter Richmond, +2 authors Trilochan Kanwaljit Singh Mukkur
• Published 2010 in Human vaccines

Prior to the introduction of killed whole cell pertussis vaccine [wP] in the 1940s, whooping cough was a major cause of infant death worldwide. Widespread vaccination of children with this vaccine caused a significant reduction in mortality. However in the 1990s and now more recently, there has been a resurgence of pertussis in several countries even in populations previously vaccinated with an acellular pertussis vaccine [aP]. In this review, we describe the epidemiology of whooping cough, the… CONTINUE READING

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