Pertussis: Should we improve intensive care management or vaccination strategies?

Expert Review of Vaccines

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-53

  Ulloa Gutierrez, Rolando ^a   Boza, Raquel ^a   Carvajal Riggioni, Daniela ^b   Baltodano, Aristides ^a  

^a Hospital Nacional de Nios de Costa Rica Dr Carlos Senz Herrera   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Bordetella pertussis; deaths; exchange transfusion; intensive care; leukocytosis; mortality; plasmapheresis; pulmonary hypertension; vaccination

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ALBUMIN; NITRIC OXIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CELL SEPARATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKAPHERESIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOFILTRATION; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHILIA; PERTUSSIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; VACCINATION;

EID: 78650495035     PISSN: 14760584     EISSN: 17448395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erv.10.156     Document Type: Article

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