We tested 46 fully vaccinated children in two day-care centers in Israel who were exposed to a fatal case of pertussis infection. Only two of five children who tested positive for Bordetella pertussis met the World Health Organization's case definition for pertussis. Vaccinated children may be asymptomatic reservoirs for infection

Benilevi, D.

Gershtein, R.

Gershtein, V.

Lahat, N.

Madeb, R.

Marva, E.

Rimmar, Y.

Shapiro, S.

Shohat, T.

Somekh, E.

Srugo, I.

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Clinical manifestations of Bordetella pertussis infection in immunized children and young adults.

Duration of effectiveness of pertussis vaccine: evidence from 10-year community study.

epidemic of pertussis in Cincinnati: resurgence of disease in a highly immunized population of children.

Pertussis in adults.

Pertussis in the Netherlands: an outbreak despite high levels of immunization with whole-cell vaccine. Emerg Infect Dis

Pertussis infection in young adults during the 1993 outbreak in Chicago.

The epidemiology of pertussis and pertussis immunization in the United Kingdom and the United States: a comparative study. Curr Probl Pediatr

WHO meeting on case definition of pertussis:

Pertussis infection in fully vaccinated children in day-care centers, Israel.