Effect of pertussis vaccine in pregnancy and COVID-19 pandemic in the cases of wooping cough()

BACKGROUND: Whooping cough has had an increased incidence and severity specially in infants and maternal immunization has been implemented as a prevention strategy. COVID-19 pandemic seems to decrease the incidence of other respiratory diseases. METHODS: Retrospective study from 2012 to 2021 to asse...

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Autores principales: León-Morillo, María del Rosario, Gomez-Pastrana, David, Díaz-Colom, María Cruz, Quecuty-Vela, Sonia, Alados-Arboledas, Juan Carlos, Aragón-Fernández, Carmen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. on behalf of Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9181273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35764476
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eimce.2022.06.006
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Whooping cough has had an increased incidence and severity specially in infants and maternal immunization has been implemented as a prevention strategy. COVID-19 pandemic seems to decrease the incidence of other respiratory diseases. METHODS: Retrospective study from 2012 to 2021 to assess the influence of pertussis maternal immunizations and the first year of COVID-19 pandemic in the cases of whooping cough. RESULTS: 960 suspected cases from primary care and hospital, with 130 cases (104 children and 26 adults) being diagnosed of whooping cough. In the post-vaccination period, a reduction in the cases and severity in infants up to 6 months old was observed as well as in the pertussis diagnosis in adult women. There were no whooping cough cases during the COVID-19 period. CONCLUSIONS: Both the pertussis vaccination in pregnancy and the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic have decreased the number of pertussis cases.

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