The incidence of pertussis hospitalizations among Japanese infants: Excess hospitalizations and complications?

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1497-1502

  Takeuchi, M ^a   Yasunaga, H ^b   Horiguchi, H ^b   Matsuda, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; pertussis (whooping cough); vaccine preventable diseases

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MINOCYCLINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; DEATH; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZED INFANT; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERTUSSIS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; TIME FACTORS; WHOOPING COUGH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863952015     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811002044     Document Type: Article

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