Abstract
Although pertussis is a vaccine-preventable disease, outbreaks can occur despite high levels of immunization in a community. This report summarizes an outbreak of pertussis that occurred predominantly among adolescents in a US military community in Kaiserslautern, Germany, during the period April-June 2005. All patients were determined to have had complete age-appropriate immunization with pertussis-containing vaccine, although newer vaccines have since been introduced for adolescents that could have greatly decreased the magnitude and impact of the outbreak.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1476-1478 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Clinical Infectious Diseases |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Dec 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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