Increased Population Prevalence of Low Pertussis Toxin Antibody Levels in Young Children Preceding a Record Pertussis Epidemic in Australia

BACKGROUND: Cross-sectional serosurveys using IgG antibody to pertussis toxin (IgG-PT) are increasingly being used to estimate trends in recent infection independent of reporting biases. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We compared the age-specific seroprevalence of various levels of IgG-PT in cross-sect...

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Autores principales: Campbell, Patricia, McIntyre, Peter, Quinn, Helen, Hueston, Linda, Gilbert, Gwendolyn L., McVernon, Jodie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22558249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035874

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22558249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035874

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