Nature Communications (May 2021)
Circulation of pertussis and poor protection against diphtheria among middle-aged adults in 18 European countries
- Guy Berbers,
- Pieter van Gageldonk,
- Jan van de Kassteele,
- Ursula Wiedermann,
- Isabelle Desombere,
- Tine Dalby,
- Julie Toubiana,
- Sotirios Tsiodras,
- Ildikó Paluska Ferencz,
- Kathryn Mullan,
- Algirdas Griskevicius,
- Tatjana Kolupajeva,
- Didrik Frimann Vestrheim,
- Paula Palminha,
- Odette Popovici,
- Lena Wehlin,
- Tamara Kastrin,
- Lucia Maďarová,
- Helen Campbell,
- Csaba Ködmön,
- Sabrina Bacci,
- Alex-Mikael Barkoff,
- Qiushui He,
- the Serosurveillance Study Team
Affiliations
- Guy Berbers
- National Institute of Public Health and the Environment
- Pieter van Gageldonk
- National Institute of Public Health and the Environment
- Jan van de Kassteele
- National Institute of Public Health and the Environment
- Ursula Wiedermann
- Medical University of Vienna
- Isabelle Desombere
- Sciensano, Public Health Belgium
- Tine Dalby
- Statens Serum Institut
- Julie Toubiana
- Institut Pasteur
- Sotirios Tsiodras
- Hellenic Center for Disease Control
- Ildikó Paluska Ferencz
- National Center for Epidemiology
- Kathryn Mullan
- National Virus reference laboratory
- Algirdas Griskevicius
- National Public Health Surveillance Laboratory
- Tatjana Kolupajeva
- Molecular Biology Department, NRL
- Didrik Frimann Vestrheim
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health
- Paula Palminha
- National Institute of Health
- Odette Popovici
- National Institute of Public Health
- Lena Wehlin
- Public Health Agency of Sweden
- Tamara Kastrin
- Slovenia National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food
- Lucia Maďarová
- Regional Authority of Public Health
- Helen Campbell
- Public Health England
- Csaba Ködmön
- European Center for Disease Prevention and Control
- Sabrina Bacci
- European Center for Disease Prevention and Control
- Alex-Mikael Barkoff
- University of Turku
- Qiushui He
- University of Turku
- the Serosurveillance Study Team
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23114-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
Recent outbreaks of pertussis have highlighted the importance of surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases. Here, the authors performed a cross-sectional seroprevalence study of pertussis, diphtheria, and tetanus in Europe and found evidence of circulation of pertussis in middle-aged adults.
