Characteristics of Hospitalized Cases of Pertussis in Catalonia and Navarra, Two Regions in the North of Spain

• Inma Crespo ,

  * E-mail: inma.crespo@hotmail.com

  Affiliations CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health. Barcelona, Spain, Public Health Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Diana Toledo,

  Affiliations Public Health Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Public Health Agency, Barcelona, Spain

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• Núria Soldevila,

  Affiliations CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health. Barcelona, Spain, Public Health Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Iolanda Jordán ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Iolanda Jordán, Rubén Solano, Joan A. Caylà

  Affiliation Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain

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• Rubén Solano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Iolanda Jordán, Rubén Solano, Joan A. Caylà

  Affiliations CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health. Barcelona, Spain, Public Health Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Public Health Agency, Barcelona, Spain

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• Jesús Castilla,

  Affiliations CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health. Barcelona, Spain, Public Health Institute, Navarra Institute for Health Research, Pamplona, Spain

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• Joan A. Caylà ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Iolanda Jordán, Rubén Solano, Joan A. Caylà

  Affiliations CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health. Barcelona, Spain, Public Health Agency, Barcelona, Spain

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• Pere Godoy,

  Affiliations CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health. Barcelona, Spain, Agency of Public Health of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

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• Carmen Muñoz-Almagro,

  Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain

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• Ángela Domínguez,

  Affiliations CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health. Barcelona, Spain, Public Health Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Working Group on the Transmission of Pertussis in Households

  ¶Membership of the Working Group on the Transmission of Pertussis in Households is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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