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1. Estimating Meningitis Hospitalization Rates for Sentinel Hospitals Conducting Invasive Bacterial Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Surveillance.

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Mathiu, Jason Mwenda, Wijesinghe, Pushpa Ranjan, Agócs, Mary, Burton, Anthony, Sale, James, Van Beneden, Chris, Taylor, Thomas, and Flannery, Brendan

Subjects
BACTERIAL vaccines, MENINGITIS in children, PNEUMOCOCCAL meningitis, HOSPITAL care, HAEMOPHILUS influenzae, VACCINATION
Abstract

The article discusses the use of the World Health Organization's (WHO) global invasive bacterial vaccine-preventable diseases (IB-VPD) sentinel hospital surveillance network for estimating meningitis hospitalization rates in the Gambia and Senegal in 2012. The surveillance provides guidance for using pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine. Details of the method used for estimating denominator of at-risk children are presented.

Published
2013

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