Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2000)

Pertussis Infection in Fully Vaccinated Children in Day-Care Centers, Israel

  • Isaac Srugo,
  • Daniel Benilevi,
  • Ralph Madeb,
  • Sara Shapiro,
  • Tamy Shohat,
  • Eli Somekh,
  • Yossi Rimmar,
  • Vladimir Gershtein,
  • Rosa Gershtein,
  • Esther Marva,
  • Nitza Lahat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0605.000512
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 5
pp. 526 – 529

Abstract

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We tested 46 fully vaccinated children in two day-care centers in Israel who were exposed to a fatal case of pertussis infection. Only two of five children who tested positive for Bordetella pertussis met the World Health Organization's case definition for pertussis. Vaccinated children may be asymptomatic reservoirs for infection.

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