Resumen de Pertussis control:: time for something new?

Thomas A. Clark, Nancy E. Messonnier, Stephen C. Hadler

• Childhood acellular pertussis vaccines were licensed and implemented in the US in the 1990s following an effort to improve on the safety profile of whole-cell vaccines. However, waning of immunity from acellular vaccines may be driving the recent resurgence of pertussis, raising the need to consider new prevention strategies.