Title |
Protecting newborns from pertussis – the challenge of complete cocooning
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Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, July 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-14-397 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Pascal Urwyler, Ulrich Heininger |
Abstract |
An increase of pertussis cases, especially in young infants and adolescents, has been noted in various countries. Whooping cough is most serious in neonates and young infants in whom it may cause serious complications such as cyanosis, apnoea, pneumonia, encephalopathy and death. To protect newborns and infants too young to be fully immunized, immunization of close contact persons has been proposed ("cocoon strategy") and implemented in several countries, including Switzerland in 2011. The goal of this study was to assess knowledge about pertussis among parents of newborns and acceptance, practicability and implementation of the recently recommended pertussis cocoon strategy in Switzerland. |
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Spain | 5 | 63% |
Unknown | 3 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 7 | 88% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
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United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
Spain | 1 | 1% |
United States | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 96 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
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Student > Master | 17 | 17% |
Researcher | 13 | 13% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 11% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 9% |
Student > Bachelor | 8 | 8% |
Other | 14 | 14% |
Unknown | 27 | 27% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 36 | 36% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 11% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 6% |
Psychology | 6 | 6% |
Social Sciences | 4 | 4% |
Other | 4 | 4% |
Unknown | 32 | 32% |