Pertussis resurgence: Waning immunity and pathogen adaptation - Two sides of the same coin

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 685-694

  Mooi, F R ^a   Van Der Maas, N A T ^a   De Melker, H E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emerging infections; epidemics; epidemiology; pertussis (whooping cough); vaccination (immunization)

Indexed keywords

FIMBRIA PROTEIN; PERTACTIN; PERTUSSIS TOXIN; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; PROTEIN VARIANT;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CLONAL SWEEP; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MASS IMMUNIZATION; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PERTUSSIS; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLELE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENICITY; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLONE; DISEASE RE-EMERGENCE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; PATHOGEN ADAPTATION; PHYLOGENY; VACCINE PRODUCTION; WANING IMMUNITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PERTUSSIS TOXIN; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 84899148580     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813000071     Document Type: Review

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