TABLE 2
Number of Cough Episodes and Laboratory-Confirmed Infections, by Hierarchic Diagnostic Laboratory Criteria and by Vaccine Received


Vaccine Received
Total
DTaP SB DTaP CB DT

Cough episodes 830 781 342 1953
Laboratory-investigated (%) 94% 93% 95% 93%
Laboratory-confirmed
B pertussis infections
138 (100%) 126 (100%) 127 (100%) 391 (100%)
  Culture-confirmed 35 (25.3%) 30 (23.8%) 57 (44.9%) 122 (31.2%)
  Increase in antibody titers 50 (36.2%) 57 (45.4%) 56 (44.1%) 163 (41.7%)
  Single IgG PT titer 53 (38.4%) 39 (30.9%) 14 (11.0%) 106 (27.1%)