Experience with Diphtheria Toxoid–Tetanus Toxoid–Acellular Pertussis Vaccine in Japan
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Experience with diphtheria toxoid-tetanus toxoid-acellular pertussis vaccine in Japan.
In Japan, the morbidity rate for pertussis per 100,000 population was 147.6 in 1950 when whole cell pertussis vaccine was introduced but dropped to 0.2 in 1972 when routine immunization with a combined vaccine consisting of diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, and whole cell pertussis had been widely accepted. Thereafter, adverse reactions to the whole cell pertussis vaccine became a social probl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/515063