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Volume 31, Number 7—July 2025

Research

Transmission Dynamics and Parameters for Pertussis during School-Based Outbreak, South Korea, 2024

U Jin Cho1, Seonghui Cho1, Hyeokjin Lee, Seul-Ki Kang, Bryan Inho Kim, Yukyung Nam, Chiara Achangwa, Jun-Sik Lim, Dong Han Lee2, and Sukhyun Ryu2Comments to Author 
Author affiliation: Gyeongnam Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Busan, South Korea (U.J. Cho, H. Lee, D.H. Lee); The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea (S. Cho, Y. Nam, C. Achangwa, S. Ryu); Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Cheongju-si, South Korea (S.-K. Kang, B.I. Kim); Korea University, Seoul (S.-K. Kang, Y. Nam); National University of Singapore, Singapore (J.-S. Lim)

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Figure 2

Transmission network of persons who received 4th, 5th, and 6th doses of the DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis) vaccine in outbreak of pertussis in a boarding school, Busan, South Korea. The person with no epidemiologic link was the case-patient identified through laboratory confirmation who had no known contact with another case.

Figure 2. Transmission network of persons who received 4th, 5th, and 6th doses of the DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis) vaccine in outbreak of pertussis in a boarding school, Busan, South Korea. The person with no epidemiologic link was the case-patient identified through laboratory confirmation who had no known contact with another case.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These authors were co–principal investigators.

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