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标题：Measles among under-9-month-olds in rural Bangladesh: its significance for age at immunization.
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作者：V. Fauveau ; J. Chakraborty ; A. M. Sarder 等
期刊名称：Bulletin of the World Health Organization
印刷版ISSN：0042-9686
出版年度：1991
卷号：69
期号：1
页码：67-72
语种：English
出版社：World Health Organisation
摘要：Any decision to modify measles immunization strategies away from the use of the conventional vaccine given to children at 9 months of age to the adoption of recently proposed vaccine strains that can be given to 4-6-month-olds will depend on the age distribution of severe cases of measles in the community. Reported are the results of an analysis of two community-based measles surveillance systems in rural Bangladesh, which found that 17% of all measles cases reported for under-5-year-olds in a nonvaccinated population involved infants aged less than 9 months. In a vaccinated population from the same area, 31% of all measles cases reported for under-5-year-olds occurred among under-9-month-olds. Using a rather restrictive definition for measles-related deaths (those occurring within 6 weeks of the onset of the rash), the proportion of measles-related deaths that occurred before 9 months of age was 13% of all such deaths that were reported. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (1.0M), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 67 68 69 70 71 72