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To the Editor: In their review of the immunization of adults (April 29 issue),¹ Gardner and Schaffner omit from consideration routine use of a booster dose of a vaccine containing diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, and antigens to Bordetella pertussis. Adults have a primary role in the current epidemiology of pertussis in the United States². Pertussis is an important cause of persistent cough in adults,³ who subsequently transmit the disease to infants and children. In addition, infants born to women susceptible to pertussis will not have the possible benefit of passively acquired antibodies to pertussis and may thus be susceptible . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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