An Assessment of the Cocooning Strategy for Preventing Infant Pertussis--United States, 2011

Conclusions. Low Tdap coverage among adult CCs reinforces the difficulty of implementing the cocooning strategy and the importance of vaccination during pregnancy to prevent infant pertussis.

Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases - November 11, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Blain, A. E., Lewis, M., Banerjee, E., Kudish, K., Liko, J., McGuire, S., Selvage, D., Watt, J., Martin, S. W., Skoff, T. H. Tags: INFANT PERTUSSIS DISEASE BURDEN IN THE CONTEXT OF MATERNAL IMMUNIZATION STRATEGIES Source Type: research