Measles vaccine effectiveness and risk factors for measles in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Measles vaccine effectiveness and risk factors for measles in Dhaka, Bangladesh

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate vaccine effectiveness and to assess risk factors for measles in Dhaka, Bangladesh. METHOD: A case-control study, involving 198 cases with 783 age-matched neighbourhood controls and 120 measles cases with 365 age-matched hospital controls, was conducted in 1995-96 in three larg...

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Main Authors: Akramuzzaman Syed M., Cutts Felicity T., Hossain Md J., Wahedi Obaidullah K., Nahar Nazmun, Islam Darul, Shaha Narayan C., Mahalanabis Dilip
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2002-01-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Subjects:
Measles vaccine/therapeutic use
Measles/etiology
Cross infection
Immunization
Risk factors
Socioeconomic factors
Case-control studies
Odds ratio
Bangladesh
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862002001000005

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