Pertussis : epidemiology, immunology, and evolution /
Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a respiratory disease caused primarily by infection with the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. It remains among the leading causes of death amongst vaccine-preventable diseases worldwide and recent years have seen its alarming re-emergence in many regions (including th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: the pertussis problem
- Introduction to pertussis transmission and epidermiological dynamics
- Basics of pertussis pathogenesis
- The immunology of Bordetalla pertussis infection and vaccination
- Pertussis epidemiology
- Role of vaccine schedules
- Animal models
- The human immune responses to pertussis and pertussis vaccines
- Evolutionary epidemiology theory of vaccination
- Temporal patterns of Bordetella pertussis genome sequence and structural evolution
- Vaccine-driven selection and the changing molecular epidemiology of Bordetella pertussis
- Congenerics: what can be learned about pertussis from pertussis-like disease caused by other Bordetella?
- Surveillance and diagnostics
- Contrasting ecological and evolutionary signatures of whooping cough epidemiological dynamics
- Pertussis immunity and the epidemiological impact of adult transmission: statistical evidence from Sweden and Massachusetts
- Public health consequences
- Epilogue: the road ahead
- Index.