Area-wide vaccination against pertussis, also known as whooping cough, has been going on since the 40th - 50th of the last century. In our country this vaccination started in 1958. The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide 20 to 30 million people per year contract pertussis. Patients from developing countries account for 90% of cases. Pertussis is the cause of the death of around 200 000 - 300 000 people per year, up to 85% of whom are children under 2 years of age. As the only source of the bacteria Bordetella pertussis are humans, they are also suitable candidate for the elimination. Therefore, the WHO established an ambitious plan to reduce the incidence of pertussis below 0.1 per 100 000 inhabitants by the year 2000. However, no country succeeded in meeting this plan´s objectives on a long-term basis and since the 80th of the 20th century there has been an increasing trend of the disease incidence across all age groups worldwide. As the proof of severity of this issue pertussis was categorized among the so-called "emerging infectious diseases", that is re-emerging diseases. Diseases whose incidence has increased in recent decades and which could become a major health problem in the near future are classified into this category. In the case of pertussis, the most effective prevention is high vaccination rates in the population, especially children. The theoretical part of the thesis summarizes the current knowledge about pertussis. In the practical part I focused on the incidence and development of the disease in the South Bohemian Region in the years 2005 - 2010, with regard to individual age groups. The results show that in the South Bohemian Region the incidence was rising. The highest incidence was in the age group of 10 to 14 years. Another purpose of the research was to compare the incidence of pertussis in the South Bohemian Region with other regions of the CR. The South Bohemian region in the surveyed 6-year-period ranked among the regions with the highest incidence.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:80319 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | HASSMANN, Vojtěch |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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