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Table 1 Pertussis vaccine efficacy studies

From: Pertussis re-emergence in the post-vaccination era

Study (year)

Country

Type of analysis

Included partecipans

Dose schedule

Type of vaccine

Efficacy of vaccine (95% CI)

AHGSPV 1988

USA

Double bind parallel group RCT

Age 5 to 11 months

2 doses (entry + 8 to 12 week later)

aP: JNIH7

78% (57-88%)

aP: JNIH6

78% (58-89%)

Trollfors 1995

Sweden

Double bind parallel group \ RCT

Full term, healthy infants

3 doses (3, 5, 12 months)

DTaP: Amvax

71% (63-78%)

Greco 1996

Italy

Double bind parallel group RCT

Age 6 to 12 weeks and weight >3rd percentile

3 doses (6 to 12, 13 to 20, and 21 to 28 weeks)

DTaP: SKB

84% (76-89%)

DTaP: CB

84% (76-90%)

DTwP: CON

36% (13-50%)

Gustafsson 1996

Sweden

Double bind parallel group RCT

Age 2 to 3 months

3 doses (2, 4, 6 months)

DTaP: SKB

59% (51-66%)

DTaP: CON

85% (81-89%)

DTwP: CON

48% (37-58%)

Simondon 1997

Senegal

Parallel group RCT

Age 2 months

3 doses (2, 4, 6 months)

DTaP: Pasteur-Merieux

85% (66-93%)

DTwP: Pasteur-Merieux

96% (86-99%)

Olin 1997

Sweden

RCT

Age 2–3 months

3 doses (3, 5, 12 months or 2, 4, 6 months)

3-component DTaP

72%

5-component

85%

DTaP

 

DTwP

89%

PVSG 1998

Germany

Parallel group RCT

Age 2 to 4 months

4 doses (2 to 4, 4 to 6, 6 to 8, 12 to 14, and 15 to 18 months)

DTaP: Lederle/ Takeda

79% (72-85%)

DTwP: Lederle

84% (77-89%)

Ward 2006

USA

Multicenter, double-blind RCT

Age 15 to 65 years

A single dose of a 3-component aP vaccine

aP (PT, FHA, PRN)

92% (32-99%)

  1. Abbreviations.
  2. RCT: randomised controlled trial.
  3. aP: acellular pertussis vaccine.
  4. DTaP: diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis vaccine.
  5. DTwP: diphtheria-tetanus-whole-cell pertussis vaccine.
  6. SKB: SmithKline Beecham.
  7. CB: Chiron-Biocine.
  8. CON: Connaught.