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- Title
Nosocomial pertussis: costs of an outbreak and benefits of vaccinating health care workers.
- Authors
Calugar, Angela; Ortega-Sánchez, Ismael R; Tiwari, Tejpratap; Oakes, Liisa; Jahre, Jeffrey A; Murphy, Trudy V
- Abstract
In September 2003, 17 symptomatic cases of pertussis among health care workers (HCWs) resulted from a 1-day exposure to an infant who was later confirmed to have pertussis. These HCWs identified 307 close contacts. The hospital implemented extensive infection-control measures. The objective of this study was to determine direct and indirect costs incurred by the hospital and symptomatic HCWs as a result of the September 2003 outbreak and to estimate possible benefits of vaccinating HCWs from the hospital perspective.
- Publication
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2006, Vol 42, Issue 7, p981
- ISSN
1537-6591
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1086/500321