Alyssa W Beavers, Allison O Kennedy, Jessica P Blake, Sarah S Comstock
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2009 booster dose acellular pertussis vaccine children entry elementary school added national immunization program taiwan includes pertussis vaccination 2 4 6 18 months age 2013 study assess level humoral immunity pertussis elementary junior high school children adolescents conducted multistage stratified systematic sampling method applied randomly selected grade 1 9 school children testing serum samples tested igg antibodies bordetella pertussis using commercial enzymelinked immunosorbent assay kits study collected information sociodemographic characteristics vaccination history sibling number disease history pertussis study recruited 2782 school children 58 schools around country questionnaire 1 282782 students history pertussis overall positivity rate antib pertussis igg 425 rates different 5 geographical areas range 396 446 p 0375 agestratified data showed positivity rates 436488 among grade 13 students 266287 grade 45 students increased progressively 394 513 grade 69 students overall positivity rate significantly higher nonbooster group 464 versus 386 p 001 prevalence antib pertussis antibody 425 grade 19 students current vaccination program taiwan antibody induced booster vaccination entry primary school waned rapidly 34 years rapid waning antib pertussis antibody may explain resurgence whooping cough recent decades additional booster doses considered adolescents adults