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Neuropediatrics 1981; 12(4): 374-381
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1059668
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1059668
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THE POSSIBLE ADJUVANT ROLE OF BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS AND PERTUSSIS VACCINE IN CAUSING SEVERE ENCEPHALOPATHIC ILLNESS: A PRESENTATION OF THREE CASE HISTORIES
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Publication Date:
19 March 2008 (online)
Abstract
The clinical and some laboratory details of three children who had severe neurological sequelae after either infection with Bordetella pertussis or immunisation with diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine and oral polio vaccine are reported. Each of these patients had had a recent or concurrent viral illness. The severity of their encephalopathic illness may have been due to an adjuvant role of B. pertussis or a component of the vaccines they received.
Key words
Diphtheria - tetanus - pertussis - oral polio vaccines - adjuvant encephalopathic illness - recent or concurrent viral illness