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Comment
. 2006 Nov 7;175(10):1227.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.060817.

Has the change to acellular pertussis vaccine improved or worsened pertussis control?

Scott A Halperin  1 , Gaston De Serres
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Comment

Has the change to acellular pertussis vaccine improved or worsened pertussis control?

Scott A Halperin et al. CMAJ. .
No abstract available

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Fig. 1: Change in incidence of reported pertussis cases in Saskatchewan between 1996 and 2002 compared with 1995. Rates were calculated as [(incidence 199x – incidence 1995)/incidence 1995]. Source: Public Health Agency of Canada, Notifiable Diseases Online (http://dsol-smed.phac-aspc.gc.ca/dsol-smed/ndis/index_e.html).
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