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- Title
The number needed to vaccinate to prevent infant pertussis hospitalization and death through parent cocoon immunization.
- Authors
Skowronski, Danuta M; Janjua, Naveed Z; Tsafack, Elodie P Sonfack; Ouakki, Manale; Hoang, Linda; De Serres, Gaston
- Abstract
Parental immunization has been recommended as a "cocoon" strategy to prevent serious pertussis outcomes in early infancy. We illustrate the high number needed to vaccinate (NNV) for this program based on recent epidemiologic data from the provinces of Québec and British Columbia (BC), Canada.
- Publication
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2012, Vol 54, Issue 3, p318
- ISSN
1537-6591
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/cid/cir836