Effectiveness of one and two doses of acellular pertussis vaccines against laboratory-confirmed pertussis requiring hospitalisation in infants: Results of the PERTINENT sentinel surveillance system in six EU/EEA countries, December 2015 - December 2019.
Lore MerdrignacFatima Aït El BelghitiElisabetta PandolfiLesly AcostaKateřina FabiánováAdele HabingtonManuel García CenozHåkon BøåsJulie ToubianaAlberto E TozziIolanda JordanJana ZavadilováNiam O'SullivanAna NavascuésElmira FlemIlena CrociMireia JanéPavla KřížováSuzanne CotterLeticia FernandinoTerese BekkevoldCarmen Muñoz-AlmagroSabrina BacciPiotr KramarzEsther KisslingCamelia Savulescunull nullnull nullPublished in: Vaccine (2024)
Our results suggest moderate one-dose and two-dose VE in infants. Larger sample size would allow more precise estimates for dose one, two and three.