Transplacental transfer of maternal antibodies following immunization with recombinant pertussis vaccines during pregnancy: real-world evidence
Pertussis, caused by Bordetella pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory disease that poses a significant risk to young infants, resulting in both severe morbidity and mortality [1]. Among infants with pertussis, approximately 4% of cases are fatal. Dramatic decreases in pediatric pertussis cases and deaths have resulted from infant vaccination programs, which include whole-cell vaccines based on killed B. pertussis and acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines using highly purified B. pertussis antigens [1]. (Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases)
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - April 10, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Surasith Chaithonwongwatthana, Wassana Wijagkanalan, Nasamon Wanlapakorn, Librada Fortuna, Vilasinee Yuwaree, Chawanee Kerdsomboon, Indrajeet Kumar Poredi, Souad Mansouri, Pham Hong Thai, Yong Poovorawan Source Type: research
Maternal Vaccination in Pregnancy: An Assessment of Influenza, Pertussis, and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in Cracow, Poland
Med Sci Monit. 2024 Mar 12;30:e943304. doi: 10.12659/MSM.943304.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND Maternal vaccination during pregnancy reduces the risk of severe course and complications from infections both for the mother and her child. As information regarding immunization status of pregnant women with recommended vaccines in Poland is scarce, this questionnaire-based study aimed to identify influenza, pertussis (whooping cough), and COVID-19 vaccination in 205 pregnant women in Cracow, Poland, between February and April 2023. Another objective was to assess whether any of the maternal factors might influence women's decision to inocu...
Source: Medical Science Monitor - March 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Julia Jurga Gabriela Mierzwa Justyna Agnieszka Kuciel Magdalena Ko łak Andrzej Jaworowski Hubert Huras Source Type: research
Bordetella holmesii: Causative agent of pertussis
Arch Pediatr. 2024 Mar 14:S0929-693X(24)00030-7. doi: 10.1016/j.arcped.2023.10.012. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBordetella holmesii is a bacterium recently recognized in 1995. It is a gram-negative coccobacillus that can cause pertussis-like symptoms in humans as well as invasive infections. It is often confused with Bordetella pertussis because routine diagnostic tests for whooping cough are not species-specific. The prevalence of B. holmesii as a cause of pertussis has increased in several countries. Therefore, B. holmesii assays are important for determining the epidemiology of pertussis, for the choice of an effectiv...
Source: Archives de Pediatrie - March 15, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Meryem Elgarini Zakaria Mennane Mohammed Sobh Abdearrahmane Hammoumi Source Type: research
Bordetella holmesii: Causative agent of pertussis
Arch Pediatr. 2024 Mar 14:S0929-693X(24)00030-7. doi: 10.1016/j.arcped.2023.10.012. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBordetella holmesii is a bacterium recently recognized in 1995. It is a gram-negative coccobacillus that can cause pertussis-like symptoms in humans as well as invasive infections. It is often confused with Bordetella pertussis because routine diagnostic tests for whooping cough are not species-specific. The prevalence of B. holmesii as a cause of pertussis has increased in several countries. Therefore, B. holmesii assays are important for determining the epidemiology of pertussis, for the choice of an effectiv...
Source: Archives de Pediatrie - March 15, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Meryem Elgarini Zakaria Mennane Mohammed Sobh Abdearrahmane Hammoumi Source Type: research
Bordetella holmesii: Causative agent of pertussis
Arch Pediatr. 2024 Mar 14:S0929-693X(24)00030-7. doi: 10.1016/j.arcped.2023.10.012. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBordetella holmesii is a bacterium recently recognized in 1995. It is a gram-negative coccobacillus that can cause pertussis-like symptoms in humans as well as invasive infections. It is often confused with Bordetella pertussis because routine diagnostic tests for whooping cough are not species-specific. The prevalence of B. holmesii as a cause of pertussis has increased in several countries. Therefore, B. holmesii assays are important for determining the epidemiology of pertussis, for the choice of an effectiv...
Source: Archives de Pediatrie - March 15, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Meryem Elgarini Zakaria Mennane Mohammed Sobh Abdearrahmane Hammoumi Source Type: research
Bordetella holmesii: Causative agent of pertussis
Arch Pediatr. 2024 Mar 14:S0929-693X(24)00030-7. doi: 10.1016/j.arcped.2023.10.012. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBordetella holmesii is a bacterium recently recognized in 1995. It is a gram-negative coccobacillus that can cause pertussis-like symptoms in humans as well as invasive infections. It is often confused with Bordetella pertussis because routine diagnostic tests for whooping cough are not species-specific. The prevalence of B. holmesii as a cause of pertussis has increased in several countries. Therefore, B. holmesii assays are important for determining the epidemiology of pertussis, for the choice of an effectiv...
Source: Archives de Pediatrie - March 15, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Meryem Elgarini Zakaria Mennane Mohammed Sobh Abdearrahmane Hammoumi Source Type: research
Bordetella holmesii: Causative agent of pertussis
Arch Pediatr. 2024 Mar 14:S0929-693X(24)00030-7. doi: 10.1016/j.arcped.2023.10.012. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBordetella holmesii is a bacterium recently recognized in 1995. It is a gram-negative coccobacillus that can cause pertussis-like symptoms in humans as well as invasive infections. It is often confused with Bordetella pertussis because routine diagnostic tests for whooping cough are not species-specific. The prevalence of B. holmesii as a cause of pertussis has increased in several countries. Therefore, B. holmesii assays are important for determining the epidemiology of pertussis, for the choice of an effectiv...
Source: Archives de Pediatrie - March 15, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Meryem Elgarini Zakaria Mennane Mohammed Sobh Abdearrahmane Hammoumi Source Type: research
Impact of normalized COVID-19 prevention and control measures on lower respiratory tract infection pathogenesis in hospitalized children
CONCLUSION: Public health interventions for COVID-19 prevention are beneficial to reduce the incidence of LRTIs in children by limiting the prevalence of ADV, MP, BP, and M. catarrhalis, but which have limited restrictive effects on other common LRTIs-associated pathogens. Collectively, the data in this study comprehensively investigated the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the epidemiological characteristics of respiratory pathogens, which will be beneficial for improving early preventive measures.PMID:38476493 | PMC:PMC10927715 | DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1367614 (Source: Adv Data)
Source: Adv Data - March 13, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Yuan Feng Huaixiao Zhang Bo Zhang Yinfei Zhou Haibin Yuan Source Type: research
Impact of normalized COVID-19 prevention and control measures on lower respiratory tract infection pathogenesis in hospitalized children
CONCLUSION: Public health interventions for COVID-19 prevention are beneficial to reduce the incidence of LRTIs in children by limiting the prevalence of ADV, MP, BP, and M. catarrhalis, but which have limited restrictive effects on other common LRTIs-associated pathogens. Collectively, the data in this study comprehensively investigated the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the epidemiological characteristics of respiratory pathogens, which will be beneficial for improving early preventive measures.PMID:38476493 | PMC:PMC10927715 | DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1367614 (Source: Adv Data)
Source: Adv Data - March 13, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Yuan Feng Huaixiao Zhang Bo Zhang Yinfei Zhou Haibin Yuan Source Type: research
Effectiveness of one and two doses of acellular pertussis vaccines against laboratory-confirmed pertussis requiring hospitalisation in infants: Results of the PERTINENT sentinel surveillance system in six EU/EEA countries, December 2015 - December 2019
CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest moderate one-dose and two-dose VE in infants. Larger sample size would allow more precise estimates for dose one, two and three.PMID:38472070 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.02.090 (Source: Vaccine)
Source: Vaccine - March 12, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Lore Merdrignac Fatima A ït El Belghiti Elisabetta Pandolfi Lesly Acosta Kate řina Fabiánová Adele Habington Manuel Garc ía Cenoz H åkon Bøås Julie Toubiana Alberto E Tozzi Iolanda Jordan Jana Zavadilov á Niam O'Sullivan Ana Navascu és Elmira Fl Source Type: research
Effectiveness of one and two doses of acellular pertussis vaccines against laboratory-confirmed pertussis requiring hospitalisation in infants: Results of the PERTINENT sentinel surveillance system in six EU/EEA countries, December 2015 - December 2019
CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest moderate one-dose and two-dose VE in infants. Larger sample size would allow more precise estimates for dose one, two and three.PMID:38472070 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.02.090 (Source: Vaccine)
Source: Vaccine - March 12, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Lore Merdrignac Fatima A ït El Belghiti Elisabetta Pandolfi Lesly Acosta Kate řina Fabiánová Adele Habington Manuel Garc ía Cenoz H åkon Bøås Julie Toubiana Alberto E Tozzi Iolanda Jordan Jana Zavadilov á Niam O'Sullivan Ana Navascu és Elmira Fl Source Type: research
Strengthening Bordetella pertussis genomic surveillance by direct sequencing of residual positive specimens
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Ahead of Print. (Source: Journal of Clinical Microbiology)
Source: Journal of Clinical Microbiology - March 6, 2024 Category: Microbiology Authors: Yanhui PengMargaret M. WilliamsLingzi XiaoliAshley SimonHeather FuestonMaria L. TondellaMichael R. Weigand1Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Geor Source Type: research
Whole-genome comparison of two same-genotype macrolide-resistant < i > Bordetella pertussis < /i > isolates collected in Japan
by Kentaro Koide, Yumi Uchitani, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Nao Otsuka, Masataka Goto, Tsuyoshi Kenri, Kazunari Kamachi
The emergence of macrolide-resistantBordetella pertussis (MRBP) is a significant problem because it reduces treatment options for pertussis and exacerbates the severity and spread of the disease. MRBP has been widely prevalent in mainland China since the 2010s and has been sporadically detected in other Asian countries. In Japan, two MRBP clinical strains were first isolated in Tokyo and Osaka between June and July 2018. The isolates BP616 in Osaka and BP625 in Tokyo harbored the same virulence-associated allel...
Source: PLoS One - February 15, 2024 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Kentaro Koide Source Type: research
Interventional study to improve pertussis and influenza vaccination uptake in pregnant women
Bordetella pertussis and influenza infections are endemic with intermittent epidemics worldwide. In particular, pertussis is associated with relevant morbidity and mortality in newborns and young infants [1,2]. The incidence of hospitalization due to pertussis in Switzerland was 56.1/100,000 in children under one year of age in 2015 [3]. About a half of the hospitalized children were younger than two months of age. (Source: European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology)
Source: European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology - February 13, 2024 Category: OBGYN Authors: Martin Cremer, Siree Kaempfen, Olav Lapaire, Irene Mathilde Hoesli, Ulrich Heininger Tags: Full length article Source Type: research
The History of Pertussis: from an Ancient Scourge to a Contemporary Health Burden
The present article offers a historical overview on pertussis (whooping cough) by analysing the ancient epidemic manifestations of the disease and the path towards the discovery of an effective vaccine against it. It also highlights some recent challenges posed to public health by this disease. (Source: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene)
Source: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene - January 31, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Francesco Maria Galassi, Elena Varotto, Mariano Martini Source Type: research
