Publications by authors named "Patricia Firmender"
Fever is not considered a typical presentation of pertussis. We characterized fever among 7840 pertussis cases from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Enhanced Pertussis Surveillance with cough onset from 2015 to 2022. Ten percent of cases had a reported fever.
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- In 2020, the CSTE revised the pertussis case definition, recognizing PCR-positive cases as confirmed, regardless of cough duration, to improve case reporting.
- The evaluation showed that 9.5% of reported cases in Enhanced Pertussis Surveillance were newly classified under the updated definition, leading to an estimated additional 582 cases nationally.
- The change in definition allowed for better tracking of pertussis cases, even during a significant decline in reported cases due to COVID-19, enhancing opportunities for public health measures.