Sentences with phrase «pertussis vaccine use»
Widespread pertussis vaccine use at a Florida preschool failed to keep the disease away from about three dozen students, staff and family members
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The older vaccine, DTP, used whole cells of the pertussis bacterium but had more dramatic side effects, often causing high fevers and sometimes fever - induced seizures.
A combination vaccine called the DTaP (for diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis) protects children up to six years old from pertussis, and a similar formulation called Tdap is used to protect older children and adults.
Before the pertussis vaccine entered routine use in the 1940s, the bacterial infection killed about 4,000 people a year in the United States.
Before pertussis vaccines came into use in the 1930s, the infection killed about 4,000 Americans (mostly infants) a year — 10 times as many as the number of people who died annually from measles and 12 times more than died from smallpox.
The bacterium that causes whooping cough, Bordetella pertussis, has changed in Australia — most likely in response to the vaccine used to prevent the disease — with a possible reduced effectiveness of the vaccine as a result, a new study shows.
Pertactin is one of the three proteins, made from purified extracts of Bordetella pertussis bacteria, which are present in the vaccine currently used in Australia.
The recent increase in cases of whooping cough among teenagers in the US suggests that the protection conferred by the acellular Bordetella pertussis vaccine (aP) that became standard in the mid 1990s is of shorter duration than that conferred by the whole - bacteria formulation (wP) used since the 1950s.