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Acellular pertussis vaccines in adults
1Department of Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
|April 13, 1999
Abstract:
The pathogenesis of pertussis, and the epidemiology and clinical manifestations of pertussis after childhood are reviewed as a background for a discussion of recent clinical trials of acellular pertussis vaccines in adults, and the vaccines' potential for routine use in adolescents and adults.