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SUBMITTER: Bento AI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5806206 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bento Ana I AI Riolo Maria A MA Choi Yoon H YH King Aaron A AA Rohani Pejman P
Vaccine 20180201 9
The recent resurgence of pertussis in England and Wales has been marked by infant deaths and rising cases in teens and adults. To understand which age cohorts are most responsible for these trends, we employed three separate statistical methods to analyze high-resolution pertussis reports from 1982 to 2012. The fine-grained nature of the time-series allowed us to describe the changes in age-specific incidence and contrast the transmission dynamics in the 1980s and during the resurgence era. Our ...[more]