Current acellular pertussis vaccines prevent disease but do not prevent nasal infection and transmission of Bordetella pertussis. However, immunology is helping to design new vaccines that induce sterilizing immunity.
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The author is an inventor on a patent around a new pertussis vaccine and receives research funding from and consults for vaccine manufacturers.
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Mills, K.H.G. How immunology can help reverse the pertussis vaccine failure. Nat Immunol 24, 1779–1780 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-023-01625-8
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