Infant Pertussis: Is Cocooning the Answer?
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Pregnancy dose Tdap and postpartum cocooning to prevent infant pertussis: a decision analysis.
BACKGROUND Infants <2 months of age are at highest risk of pertussis morbidity and mortality. Until recently, the US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended protecting young infants by "cocooning" or vaccination of postpartum mothers and other close contacts with tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis, adsorbed (Tdap) booster vaccine. ACIP rec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1537-6591,1058-4838
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir542