Avidity of maternal pertussis antibodies after vaccination during pregnancy

Affiliations

¹ Center for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
² Bacteriology Department, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Yersin street 1, Hanoi, Vietnam.
³ National Reference Centre Bordetella, Service Immunology, Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP), Brussels, Belgium.
⁴ Center for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. Electronic address: elke.leuridan@uantwerpen.be.

Comment

Kirsten Maertens et al. Vaccine. 2015.

. 2015 Oct 13;33(42):5489.

doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.05.075. Epub 2015 Jun 24.

¹ Center for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
² Bacteriology Department, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Yersin street 1, Hanoi, Vietnam.
³ National Reference Centre Bordetella, Service Immunology, Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP), Brussels, Belgium.
⁴ Center for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. Electronic address: elke.leuridan@uantwerpen.be.

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The avidity of pertussis antibodies following gestational acellular pertussis immunization: Reply to Maertens.
Abu Raya B, Srugo I, Bamberger E, Kessel A. Abu Raya B, et al. Vaccine. 2015 Oct 13;33(42):5490-5491. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.05.090. Epub 2015 Jun 9. Vaccine. 2015. PMID: 26071193 No abstract available.

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Abu Raya B, Bamberger E, Almog M, Peri R, Srugo I, Kessel A. Abu Raya B, et al. Vaccine. 2015 Apr 15;33(16):1948-52. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.02.059. Epub 2015 Mar 3. Vaccine. 2015. PMID: 25744227