%0 Journal Article %A Zouari, Asma %A Smaoui, Hanen %A Bousnina, Souad %A Menif, Khaled %A Ben Jaballah, Najla %A Kechrid, Amel %T The new health legacy: when pertussis becomes a heritage transmitted from mothers to infants %D 2011 %J Journal of Medical Microbiology, %V 60 %N 10 %P 1546-1549 %@ 1473-5644 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.030809-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Despite high vaccination coverage rates, there has been a gradual increase in reported pertussis cases. Although whooping cough affects all ages, young infants continue to suffer the greatest pertussis disease burden. Adolescents and adults are the primary source of infection for young babies. In this paper, we report two cases involving the likely transmission of pertussis from mothers to infants in Tunisia. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.030809-0