Pertussis infection in fully vaccinated children in day-care centers, Israel.
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.
Srugo
I
I
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel. srugoi@tx.technion.ac.il
Benilevi
D
D
Madeb
R
R
Shapiro
S
S
Shohat
T
T
Somekh
E
E
Rimmar
Y
Y
Gershtein
V
V
Gershtein
R
R
Marva
E
E
Lahat
N
N
D000293:Adolescent; D001886:Bordetella pertussis / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002353:Carrier State; D002648:Child; D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D007223:Infant; D007557:Israel / Q000453:epidemiology; D010567:Pertussis Vaccine / Q000276:immunology*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014917:Whooping Cough / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology / Q000401:mortality
D010567:Pertussis Vaccine