Whooping Cough
Background
Pathogenesis
Current Vaccine Options
DwP Vaccine
DaP Vaccine
Recent Vaccine Failures
Incidents
Differences in Vaccine Efficacy
Other Hypotheses for the Failures
The Search for Improvement
References
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Edited by Kristina Millar, a student of Nora Sullivan in BIOL168L (Microbiology) in The Keck Science Department of the Claremont Colleges Spring 2014.
