High prevalence of antibody titers against Bordetella pertussis in an adult population with prolonged cough

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1586-1591

  Kapaskelis, Anastasios M ^a,b   Vouloumanou, Evridiki K ^a   Rafailidis, Petros I ^a,b   Hatzopoulou, Panagiota ^b   Nikita, Dimitra ^b   Falagas, Matthew E ^a,b,c  

^a ALFA INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AIBS   (Greece)

^b HENRY DUNANT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bordetella pertussis; Epidemic; Respiratory tract infection; Seropositivity; Whooping cough

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENCE; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; COUGHING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROLOGY; VACCINATION;

ADULT; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; COHORT STUDIES; COUGH; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIRULENCE FACTORS, BORDETELLA; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 55549088883     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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