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Kathleen Winter

Researcher at California Department of Public Health

Publications -  44
Citations -  3442

Kathleen Winter is an academic researcher from California Department of Public Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vaccination & Pertussis vaccine. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 40 publications receiving 3083 citations. Previous affiliations of Kathleen Winter include University of Kentucky & California Health and Human Services Agency.

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Factors associated with death or hospitalization due to pandemic 2009 influenza A(H1N1) infection in California.

TL;DR: In the first 16 weeks of the current pandemic, the median age of hospitalized infected cases was younger than is common with seasonal influenza, and most cases had established risk factors for complications of seasonal influenza.
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Measles outbreak--California, December 2014-February 2015.

TL;DR: The patient was a hospitalized, unvaccinated child, aged 11 years with rash onset on December 28, and the only notable travel history during the exposure period was a visit to one of two adjacent Disney theme parks located in Orange County, California.
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Association of Childhood Pertussis With Receipt of 5 Doses of Pertussis Vaccine by Time Since Last Vaccine Dose, California, 2010

TL;DR: Among children in 15 California counties, children with pertussis, compared with controls, had lower odds of having received the 5-dose DTaP series; as time since lastDTaP dose increased, the odds increased, which is consistent with a progressive decrease in estimated vaccine effectiveness each year after the final dose of pertussi vaccine.
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California Pertussis Epidemic, 2010

TL;DR: In 2010, California experienced the highest number of pertussis cases in >60 years, with >9000 cases, 809 hospitalizations, and 10 deaths; this report provides a descriptive epidemiologic analysis of this epidemic and describes public health mitigation strategies that were used, including expanded pertussi vaccine recommendations.