Use of mass Tdap vaccination to control an outbreak of pertussis in a high school - Cook County, Illinois, September 2006-January 2007

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 57, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 796-799

  Counard, C ^a   Nimke, D ^a   Vernon, M ^a   Cohn, A ^b  

^a Cook County Dept of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MASS IMMUNIZATION; PERTUSSIS; SCHOOL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-ACELLULAR PERTUSSIS VACCINES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MASS IMMUNIZATION; SCHOOLS; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 47949108770     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

References (6)

1. CDC. School-associated pertussis outbreak - Yavapai County, Arizona, September 2002-February 2003. MMWR 2004;53:216-9.
2. Khetsuriani N, Bisgard K, Prevots DR, et al. Pertussis outbreak in an elementary school with high vaccination coverage. Pediatr Infect Dis J 20:1108-12.
3. CDC. Pertussis outbreak - Vermont, 1996. MMWR 1997;46:822-6.
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5. CDC. Preventing tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis among adolescents: use of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccines: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR 2006;55(No. RR-3).
6. CDC. Preventing tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis among adults: use of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccines: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and recommendation of ACIP, supported by the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), for use of Tdap among health-care personnel. MMWR 2006;55(No.RR-17).