Article
Gestational pertussis vaccination and the infant’s cellular immune response against whole-cell pertussis vaccine in the first year of life
2019-07-11
Abstract excerpt
Pertussis resurgence worldwide calls for new prevention strategies, as the recently incorporated vaccine booster dose during pregnancy, whose aim is to protect newborns from infection. In Brazil, maternal Tdap vaccination is recommended since 2014, and we reported that this strategy promotes high transplacental transfer of anti-PT IgG and it is effective in protecting infants early in life. Young children are the...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6fd05739-fe8c-552e-8cb3-03651d01eab8
- DOI
- 10.1101/697722
