Impact of immunisation on pertussis transmission in England and Wales Journal Articles

abstract

• Pertussis immunisation reduces disease frequency, but is not thought to prevent transmission. We show that vaccination has substantially reduced transmission in England and Wales.

authors

• Rohani, Pejman
• Earn, David
• Grenfell, Bryan T

status

• published 

publication date

• January 2000

has subject area

• 11 Medical and Health Sciences (FoR)
• England (MeSH)
• General & Internal Medicine (Science Metrix)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Pertussis Vaccine (MeSH)
• Vaccination (MeSH)
• Wales (MeSH)
• Whooping Cough (MeSH)

published in

• The Lancet  Journal

keywords

• England
• Humans
• Pertussis Vaccine
• Vaccination
• Wales
• Whooping Cough

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/s0140-6736(99)04482-7

PubMed ID

• 10675078

start page

• 285

end page

• 286

volume

• 355

issue

• 9200