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Preventing pertussis in early infancy
In reaction to the resurgence of pertussis, it became clear that additional strategies had to be developed to reduce the burden of pertussis for infants. Several additional vaccination strategies were suggested to be able to respond to this need, such as pertussis booster vaccinations for adolescents or adults, neonatal pertussis vaccination, maternal pertussis vaccination, pertussis cocooning and selective pertussis vaccination of HCWs who work with young infants (Forsyth et al. 2005, Forsyth et al. 2007, de Greeff et al. 2010, van der Maas et al. 2013). These strategies either aim to protect infants directly, by inducing antibodies at a younger age, or indirectly, by preventing transmission to infants through
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Figure 1.2 Current schedule of the National Immunisation Programme in the Netherlands,
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