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Protecting newborns from pertussis – the challenge of complete cocooning

BACKGROUND: An increase of pertussis cases, especially in young infants and adolescents, has been noted in various countries. Whooping cough is most serious in neonates and young infants in whom it may cause serious complications such as cyanosis, apnoea, pneumonia, encephalopathy and death. To prot...

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Autores principales: Urwyler, Pascal, Heininger, Ulrich
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4223593/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25037057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-397