The impact of parental postpartum pertussis vaccination on infection in infants: A population-based study of cocooning in Western Australia
During a pertussis epidemic in 2011–2012 the Western Australian (WA) Department of Health implemented a ‘cocooning’ programme, offering free pertussis-containing vaccine (dTpa) to new parents. We assessed the impact of vaccinating parents with dTpa on the incidence of pertussis infection in newborns...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Elsevier
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11126 |