Data=KCDC Last year, the number of legal infectious diseases increased by 54.5% compared to the previous year. The whooping cough pandemic is behind the surge in infectious diseases. According to the ...

Pertussis infections have surged in recent months, and some people may need an additional shot for protection. By Teddy Rosenbluth After a brief lull during the pandemic, whooping cough has ...

Keywords: pertussis, avidity, pertussis toxin, genetically inactivated, recombinant vaccine, maternal immunization, vaccination during pregnancy Citation: Abu-Raya B, Del Giudice G, van den Biggelaar ...

Binding of pertussis toxin (PTx) was examined by a glycan microarray; 53 positive hits fell into four general groups. One group represents sialylated biantennary compounds with an N-glycan core ...

Abstract: Pertussis vaccine is produced from physicochemically inactivated toxin for many years. Recent advancements in immunoinformatics [N. Tomar and R. K. De, “Immunoinformatics: an integrated ...

However, the researchers also observed a phenomenon known as "blunting"—a reduction in infants’ antibody responses to their primary DTaP (diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis) series following ...

Tetanus-diphtheriaa-acellular pertussis–inactivated polio virus vaccination during pregnancy is safe and boosts pertussis-specific antibody responses in infants.

Whooping cough cases skyrocket The CDC reports cases of whooping cough have more than doubled in comparison to the number of cases this time last year.

Amid an ongoing measles outbreak, the US is also facing a surge in pertussis, or whooping cough. As vaccine rates drop, other diseases could be next.

Vaccines for whooping cough could improve following research published April 2 by UT and other global researchers specifically focused on two antibodies that target the infection’s toxins. The ...

One of the things that makes pertussis infections dangerous is pertussis toxin (PT), a chemical weapon produced by the bacteria that weakens a patient’s immune response and causes many of the severe ...