Lore Merdrignac, Lesly Acosta, Adele Habington, Manuel Garcìa Cenoz, Elisabetta Pandolfi, Kateřina Fabiánová, Iolanda Jordan, Niam O'Sullivan, Ana Navasués, Alberto E Tozzi, Jana Zavadilová, Mireia Jané, Suzanne Cotter, Nerea I Pitillas, Caterina Rizzo, Pavla Křížová, Thomas Hanslik, Carmen Muñoz Almagro, Lucia Pastore, Sabrina Bacci, Alain Moren, Marta Valenciano
BACKGROUND: PERTINENT is an active hospital-based surveillance system for pertussis in infants. In 2019, four of the six participating European countries recommended pertussis vaccination in pregnancy. Among infants aged <2 months, we measured the vaccine effectiveness (VE) in pregnancy; among infants aged 2-11 months, VE of vaccination in pregnancy and of primary vaccination (PV). METHODS: From December 2015 to 2019, we included all infants aged <1 year presenting with pertussis-like symptoms...
September 28, 2022: Vaccine