Impact of Vaccination on Haemophilus influenzae Type b Carriage in Healthy Children Less Than 5 Years of Age in an Urban Population in Nepal

Impact of Vaccination on Haemophilus influenzae Type b Carriage in Healthy Children Less Than 5 Years of Age in an Urban Population in Nepal

Background Reduction in detection of asymptomatic carriage of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) can be used to assess vaccine impact. In Nepal, routine vaccination against Hib in children at 6, 10, and 14 weeks of age was introduced in 2009. Before vaccine introduction, Hib carriage was estimated...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of infectious diseases 2021-09, Vol.224, p.S267-S274
Hauptverfasser: Shrestha, Sonu, Stockdale, Lisa K., Gautam, Madhav C., Gurung, Meeru, Feng, Shuo, Maskey, Pratistha, Kerridge, Simon, Kelly, Sarah, Voysey, Merryn, Pokhrel, Bhishma, Rajbhandari, Piyush, Thorson, Stephen, Khadka, Bibek, Shah, Ganesh, Scherer, Karin S., Kelly, Dominic, Murdoch, David R., Shrestha, Shrijana, Pollard, Andrew J.
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Sprache:eng
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Immunology
Infectious Diseases
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Microbiology
Science & Technology
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Zusammenfassung:Background Reduction in detection of asymptomatic carriage of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) can be used to assess vaccine impact. In Nepal, routine vaccination against Hib in children at 6, 10, and 14 weeks of age was introduced in 2009. Before vaccine introduction, Hib carriage was estimated at 5.0% among children aged
ISSN:0022-1899
1537-6613
DOI:10.1093/infdis/jiab072