esposito: Humoral response to pertussis antigen

Description Usage Format References Examples

Description

Humoral response to pertussis antigen in vaccinated children and children with a history of pertussis infection.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with six columns: number of children that are PT, FHA, and PRN positive and negative.

References

Esposito, S., Agliardi, T., Giammanco, A., Faldella, G., Cascio, A., Bosis, S., Friscia, O., Clerici, M. and Principi, N. (2001) Long-term pertussis-specific immunity after primary vaccination with a combined diphtheria, tetanus, tricomponent acellular pertussis and hepatitis B vaccine in comparison with that after natural infection. Infection and Immunity 69, 4516–4520. (See Table 1.)

Examples

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data(esposito)
# Fisher's exact tests
fisher.test(esposito[,1:2]) # PT
fisher.test(esposito[,3:4]) # FHA
fisher.test(esposito[,5:6]) # PRN

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