Pertussis control in Canada

SA Halperin - CMAJ, 2003 - Can Med Assoc
On behalf of the dentists of Ontario, I wish to commend you for emphasizing to Canadian
physicians, through your public health column, the issue of dental caries. 1 It is reassuring to …

Pertussis and pertussis vaccines in adults

LA Herwaldt - JAMA, 1993 - jamanetwork.com
Seventy-one years ago John Phillips observed that" pertussis in adults is often
unrecognized, and this is accountable... for the spread of the disease.... The prevalent idea …

[HTML][HTML] CDC releases guidelines on antimicrobial agents for the treatment and postexposure prophylaxis of pertussis

L Graham - American Family Physician, 2006 - aafp.org
CDC Releases Guidelines on Antimicrobial Agents for the Treatment and Postexposure
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The control of pertussis—2007 and beyond

SA Halperin - New England Journal of Medicine, 2007 - Mass Medical Soc
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[CITATION][C] Pertussis re‐emerging: who is responsible?

MA Burgess, PB McIntyre… - Australian and New …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
In the first 10 months of 1997, almost 7000 cases of pertussis were notified in Australia, and
since last summer nine infants have died.'.'The outbreak commenced in 1994 and has …

Pertussis: a continuing hazard for healthcare facilities

DJ Weber, WA Rutala - Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 2001 - cambridge.org
In 1999, 7,288 cases of pertussis were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). 1 High rates of pertussis, compared with other pediatric …

Pertussis

D Guris, P Strebel, M Wharton - Bulletin of the World Health …, 1998 - go.gale.com
Pertussis, a highly infectious, vaccine-preventable disease lasting many weeks, is caused
by infection with Bordetella pertussis, a bacillus first isolated in 1906 by Bordet and Gengou …

Doctors' notifications of pertussis

S Blogg, M Trent - New South Wales Public Health Bulletin, 1998 - CSIRO Publishing
This article describes the results of a telephone survey of medical practitioners conducted by
the Northern Rivers Public Health Unit (PHU) to determine the reasons why doctors did not …

The challenges of pertussis outbreaks in healthcare facilities: is there a light at the end of the tunnel?

KM Edwards, TR Talbot - Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 2006 - cambridge.org
Although classically recognized as a disease of infants and children, the reported incidence
of Bordetella pertussis infection in adolescents and adults has increased at a remarkable …

Diagnosis and prevention of pertussis

NW Preston - The Lancet, 2006 - thelancet.com
The 150 references selected by Natasha Crowcroft and Richard Pebody for their Seminar
(June 10, p 1926) 1 led them to perpetuate the myth that the sensitivity of bacterial culture in …