High Incidence of Pertussis among Hajj Pilgrims | Zendy

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High Incidence of Pertussis among Hajj Pilgrims

Author(s) -

Annelies WilderSmith,

Arul Earnest,

Sundari Ravindran,

Nicholas I. Paton

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/378748

Subject(s) - hajj , medicine , whooping cough , incidence (geometry) , herd immunity , pertussis vaccine , immunity , immunology , bordetella pertussis , pertussis toxin , pediatrics , antibody , vaccination , immunization , immune system , philosophy , physics , theology , islam , optics , genetics , receptor , g protein , biology , bacteria

Prolonged cough occurs in a large proportion of the 2 million pilgrims who participate in the annual Hajj in Saudi Arabia. In a prospective seroepidemiological study to determine the incidence of pertussis among 358 adult pilgrims, 5 (1.4%) were found to have acquired pertussis (defined as prolonged cough and a >4-fold increase in the level of immunoglobulin G to whole-cell pertussis antigen). Of the 40 pilgrims who had no pre-Hajj immunity to pertussis, 3 (7.5%) acquired pertussis. Administration of acellular pertussis vaccine to pilgrims before the Hajj should be considered to address this problem.

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