Whooping Cough / Pertussis - Causes - Symptoms - Diagnosis - Treatment - Prevention
Whooping cough is a respiratory tract infection caused by a bacterium called Bordetella pertussis. DPT vaccine helps to prevent the infection.
Whooping cough is a respiratory tract infection caused by a bacterium called Bordetella pertussis. DPT vaccine helps to prevent the infection.
‘Maternal immunization with the Tdap vaccine early in the third trimester associated with the highest concentrations of antibodies.’
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This observational study included 626 pregnancies and compared pertussis antibody concentrations in umbilical cord blood among newborns whose mothers received Tdap immunization in the third trimester, as is recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with those whose mothers didn't receive the Tdap vaccine during pregnancy. Definitive antibody concentration levels for immunity from whooping cough for infants are unknown. The study design doesn't allow for cause-and-effect interpretations of the findings. Authors: C. Mary Healy, M.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, and coauthors Related Material
Previously published by JAMA: Safety and Immunogenicity of Tetanus Diphtheria and Acellular Pertussis (Tdap) Immunization During Pregnancy in Mothers and Infants
Wonderful Stages of Pregnancy
From your first week of your pregnancy to the last, here’s a list of all the changes that take place.
From your first week of your pregnancy to the last, here’s a list of all the changes that take place.
Resurgence of Whooping Cough may Owe to Vaccine's Inability to Prevent Infections
Understand how our immune defenses against whooping cough worked, and did not understand how the vaccines needed to work to prevent.
Understand how our immune defenses against whooping cough worked, and did not understand how the vaccines needed to work to prevent.
