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Volume 21, Number 9—September 2015
THEME ISSUE
Emerging Infections Program
Emerging Infections Program

Tracking Pertussis and Evaluating Control Measures through Enhanced Pertussis Surveillance, Emerging Infections Program, United States

Tami H. SkoffComments to Author , Joan Baumbach, and Paul R. Cieslak
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (T.H. Skoff); New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (J. Baumbach); Oregon Health Authority, Portland, Oregon, USA (P.R. Cieslak)

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Overall and age-specific pertussis incidences, United States, 2012, from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) and Enhanced Pertussis Surveillance (EPS). Overall incidence for 2012. NNDSS: 15.4 cases/100,000 population (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NNDSS and Supplemental Pertussis Surveillance System, and 1922–1949 passive reports to the US Public Health Service). EPS: 42.0 cases/100,000 population (Emerging Infection Program, EPS for Colorado, Connecticut,

Figure 2. Overall and age-specific pertussis incidences, United States, 2012, from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) and Enhanced Pertussis Surveillance (EPS). Overall incidence for 2012. NNDSS: 15.4 cases/100,000 population (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NNDSS and Supplemental Pertussis Surveillance System, and 1922–1949 passive reports to the US Public Health Service). EPS: 42.0 cases/100,000 population (Emerging Infection Program, EPS for Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, and Oregon).

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