Twenty Years of Active Bacterial Core Surveillance
Gayle Langley
, William Schaffner, Monica M. Farley, Ruth Lynfield, Nancy M. Bennett, Arthur L. Reingold, Ann Thomas, Lee H. Harrison, Megin Nichols, Susan Petit, Lisa Miller, Matthew R. Moore, Stephanie J. Schrag, Fernanda C. Lessa, Tami H. Skoff, Jessica R. MacNeil, Elizabeth Briere, Emily J. Weston, and Chris Van Beneden
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (G. Langley, M.R. Moore, S.J. Schrag, F.C. Lessa, T.H. Skoff, J.R. MacNeil, E.C. Briere, E.J. Weston, C. Van Beneden); Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (W. Schaffner); Emory University School of Medicine and The Atlanta VA Medical Center, Atlanta (M.M. Farley); Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (R. Lynfield); University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA (N.M. Bennett); University of California, Berkley, California, USA (A. Reingold); Oregon Department of Human Services, Portland, Oregon, USA (A. Thomas); Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (L.H. Harrison); New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (M. Nichols); Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (S. Petit); Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, Colorado, USA (L. Miller)
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Figure 5
Figure 5. Number of pertussis cases reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, 1922–2014. Inset shows detail view of data for 1990–2014. Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System and Supplemental Pertussis Surveillance System, 1922–1949; passive reports to the Public Health Service. Data for 2014 are provisional. DTP, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis vaccine; DTap, diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis vaccine given to children up to 7 years of age; Tdap, tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis vaccine given to adolescents and adults.
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