Pertussis-Associated Pneumonia in Infants and Children From Low- and Middle-Income Countries Participating in the PERCH Study

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• Alternative Title:
  Clin Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Barger-Kamate, Breanna ; Deloria Knoll, Maria ; Kagucia, E. Wangeci ; Prosperi, Christine ; Baggett, Henry C. ; Brooks, W. Abdullah ; Feikin, Daniel R. ; Hammitt, Laura L. ; Howie, Stephen R. C. ; Levine, Orin S. ; Madhi, Shabir A. ; Scott, J. Anthony G. ; Thea, Donald M. ; Amornintapichet, Tussanee ; Anderson, Trevor P. ; Awori, Juliet O. ; Baillie, Vicky L. ; Chipeta, James ; DeLuca, Andrea N. ; Driscoll, Amanda J. ; Goswami, Doli ; Higdon, Melissa M. ; Hossain, Lokman ; Karron, Ruth A. ; Maloney, Susan ; Moore, David P. ; Morpeth, Susan C. ; Mwananyanda, Lawrence ; Ofordile, Ogochukwu ; Olutunde, Emmanuel ; Park, Daniel E. ; Sow, Samba O. ; Tapia, Milagritos D. ; Murdoch, David R. ; O'Brien, Katherine L. ; Kotloff, Karen L.
• Description:
   Few data exist describing pertussis epidemiology among infants and children in low- and middle-income countries to guide preventive strategies.| Children 1-59 months of age hospitalized with World Health Organization-defined severe or very severe pneumonia in 7 African and Asian countries and similarly aged community controls were enrolled in the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health study. They underwent a standardized clinical evaluation and provided nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs and induced sputum (cases only) for Bordetella pertussis polymerase chain reaction. Risk factors and pertussis-associated clinical findings were identified.| Bordetella pertussis was detected in 53 of 4200 (1.3%) cases and 11 of 5196 (0.2%) controls. In the age stratum 1-5 months, 40 (2.3% of 1721) cases were positive, all from African sites, as were 8 (0.5% of 1617) controls. Pertussis-positive African cases 1-5 months old, compared to controls, were more often human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) uninfected-exposed (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 2.2), unvaccinated (aOR, 3.7), underweight (aOR, 6.3), and too young to be immunized (aOR, 16.1) (all P ≤ .05). Compared with pertussis-negative African cases in this age group, pertussis-positive cases were younger, more likely to vomit (aOR, 2.6), to cough ≥14 days (aOR, 6.3), to have leukocyte counts >20 000 cells/µL (aOR, 4.6), and to have lymphocyte counts >10 000 cells/µL (aOR, 7.2) (all P ≤ .05). The case fatality ratio of pertussis-infected pneumonia cases 1-5 months of age was 12.5% (95% confidence interval, 4.2%-26.8%; 5/40); pertussis was identified in 3.7% of 137 in-hospital deaths among African cases in this age group.| In the postneonatal period, pertussis causes a small fraction of hospitalized pneumonia cases and deaths; however, case fatality is substantial. The propensity to infect unvaccinated infants and those at risk for insufficient immunity (too young to be vaccinated, premature, HIV-infected/exposed) suggests that the role for maternal vaccination should be considered along with efforts to reduce exposure to risk factors and to optimize childhood pertussis vaccination coverage.
• Subjects:
  Bordetella Pertussis Case-Control Studies Coinfection Developing Countries Female HIV Infections Hospitalization Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Infant Pertussis Disease Burden In The Context Of Maternal Immunization Strategies Male Mortality Odds Ratio Pertussis Pneumonia Population Surveillance Risk Factors Symptom Assessment Vaccination Whooping Cough

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• Source:
  Clin Infect Dis. 2016; 63(Suppl 4):S187-S196
• Pubmed ID:
  27838672
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5106621
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  MC_UP_A900_1124/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom ; MC_U190074190/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom ; MC_UP_A900_1116/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom ; R24 TW007988/TW/FIC NIH HHS/United States ; MC_UP_A900_1122/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom ; MC_U190081991/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom ; MC_U190088478/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom ; Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom
• Volume:
  63
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bdad87a37c39ce423268798a94510eead41484c7edd5af44083ddcad29450245
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/43039/cdc_43039_DS1.pdf
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