Published online November 1, 2005
PEDIATRICS Vol. 116 No. 5 November 2005, pp. 1263 (doi:10.1542/peds.2005-1829)
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Pertussis in Adolescents and Adults: Should We Accept the Results?

Jaime Caro, MDCM, FRCPC, FACP
Getsios Denis, BA
Caro Research Institute
Concord, MA 01742

Laurent Coudeville, PhD
Sanofi Pasteur
69367 Cedex 07, Lyon, France

Annelies Van Rie, MD, PhD
Department of Epidemiology
University of North Carolina
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To the Editor.—

In their recent article, Lee et al1 addressed the question of vaccinating adolescents and adults against pertussis. Their analysis favors vaccination of adolescents but not of adults, which is in accord with previous analyses of adolescent vaccination in the United States2,3 and Canada4 but at odds with a recent modeling exercise.3 This exercise, while acknowledging uncertainties in data used, reported . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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