VACCINATION AGAINST WHOOPING COUGH
- 20 May 1944
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 125 (3) , 200-202
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1944.02850210022005
Abstract
From the literature on pertussis vaccination it is difficult to attain an unbiased opinion as to the value of this prophylactic measure. On the one hand there are authors, like Sauer1 and Silverthorne, who report excellent results; on the other hand there are those who have only negative or doubtful effects to report (Doull2). Table 1, taken from a recent publication by Toomey,3 is a survey of different publications on this subject. All these reports have the same problem to face, which some authors try to solve, others not, namely the rate of exposure to infection after vaccination. In a community where whooping cough is always existent and flares up periodically, the rate of exposure among a great number of children must necessarily be difficult to grasp numerically. If the children are vaccinated between epidemics, months and years may pass before they are exposed to infection, andThis publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- ACTIVE IMMUNITYJAMA, 1942