Several randomized pertussis vaccine efficacy studies were conducted in Europe and Africa to compare the safety and efficacy of the acellular and the whole-cell pertussis vaccines for the ...

A shift in disease burden observed in school age children and adolescents has been attributed to waning immunity after acellular vaccination. Mortality associated with pertussis is greatest in ...

The company’s innovative spirit led to the creation of the recombinant hepatitis B vaccine and a component acellular pertussis vaccine — firsts in Japan. Thanks to some historic contributions ...

Safety reviews of two main types of whooping cough vaccines—Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis), for those 7 years and older, and DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis ...

One hypothesis is that the switch from a vaccine containing whole Bordetella pertussis cells to an acellular version with pertussis antigens—a change that happened in the US around the year 2000—might ...

There are actually two vaccines: DTaP is given to young children, and it protects against three diseases: diphtheria (the D ...

Symvess, or the ATEV™ (acellular tissue engineered vessel), is a first-in-class bioengineered human tissue that is designed to be a universally implantable vascular conduit for use in arterial ...