Open AccessPertussis outbreak in recently vaccinated children in a kindergarten in Ljubljana during a resurgence in pertussis incidence
Author(s) -
Eva Grilc,
Nina Pirnat
Publication year - 2005
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.10.33.02779-en
Subject(s) - outbreak , incidence (geometry) , whooping cough , pediatrics , medicine , notifiable disease , vaccination , virology , environmental health , population , physics , optics
Pertussis is a mandatorily notifiable disease in Slovenia and since 1959, there has been an active national immunisation programmme. Since the start of this programme, the annual number of notified cases has fallen sharply