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Published on in Vol 12 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/104376, first published .
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Age-Specific Pertussis Transmission Dynamics and Impact of Immunization Schedule Revision in Hunan, China: Age-Structured Mathematical Modeling Study

Age-Specific Pertussis Transmission Dynamics and Impact of Immunization Schedule Revision in Hunan, China: Age-Structured Mathematical Modeling Study

Yue He   1 * , BD ;   Ziyan Liu   2 * , MD ;   Yanhua Yang   2 * , MD ;   Kangguo Li   1 * , BD ;   Yao Wang   3 , PhD ;   Yuqing Wu   4 , MD ;   Zheni Bu   2 , MD ;   Yuyang Liu   2 , MD ;   Yanhua Su   1 , PhD ;   Qiuping Chen   1 , PhD ;   Zeyu Zhao   1 , PhD ;   Jia Rui   5 , PhD ;   Kaiwei Luo   2 , MD ;   Tianmu Chen   1 , PhD

1 State Key Laboratory of Vaccines for Infectious Disease, Xiang An Biomedicine Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

2 Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Hunan Province (Hunan Academy of Preventive Medicine), Changsha, Hunan, China

3 School of Public Health, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

4 Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinshan Sub District Community Health Service Center, Xiamen, Fujian, China

5 Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

*these authors contributed equally

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