Background: The transition from a whole-cell to a 5-component acellular pertussis vaccine provided a unique opportunity to compare the effect that each type of vaccine had on the incidence of ...

Acellular pertussis vaccines protected against disease but did not prevent infection and transmission, whereas whole-cell vaccines were more effective, according to findings from a primate model study ...

Dr Géraldine Blanchard-Rohner, member of the Geneva Centre for Inflammation Research, has been awarded a four-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for an innovative research ...

This study was a follow-up of a previous analysis of outcomes of children who received only the acellular and not the whole-cell pertussis vaccine, both initially and during tetanus, diphtheria, and ...

Between July 1997 and April 1998, all provinces and territories in Canada switched from using a combination vaccine of diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, whole-cell pertussis, inactivated poliovirus and ...

Whooping cough has made an astonishing comeback, with 2012 seeing nearly 50,000 infections in the U.S. (the most since 1955), and a death rate in infants three times that of the rest of the population ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent phase 2/3 data showed that a new recombinant acellular pertussis booster vaccine administered alone or in ...

Pertussis jab Current acellular vaccines protect against whooping cough disease but fail to prevent infection and transmission in baboons, report US government scientists. This could help explain the ...

A vaccine to protect adults and adolescents against illness due to Bordetella pertussis infection--or whooping cough--has proved more than 90 percent effective in a national, large-scale clinical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The overall incidence of pertussis in the United States increased between 2000 and 2016, with age-specific case ...

THURSDAY, Nov. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Whooping cough is making a major comeback in the United States, with sharp increases now seen in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon and many other places.

Pertussis infections in the United States are increasing as a consequence of waning immunity and increased surveillance. Those most at-risk of mortality include infants less than 6 months of age and ...