Effectiveness of a monovalent rotavirus vaccine in infants in Malawi after programmatic roll-out: an observational and case-control study

Bar‐Zeev, Naor; Kapanda, Lester; E. Tate, Jacqueline; C. Jere, Khuzwayo; Iturriza‐Gómara, Miren; Nakagomi, Osamu; Mwansambo, Charles; Costello, Anthony; D. Parashar, Umesh; S. Heyderman, Robert; French, Neil; A. Cunliffe, Nigel

doi:10.1016/s1473-3099(14)71060-6

Public

Effectiveness of a monovalent rotavirus vaccine in infants in Malawi after programmatic roll-out: an observational and case-control study

Published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases • Jan 28, 2015

Authors:

Naor Bar‐Zeev

Lester Kapanda

Jacqueline E. Tate

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Rotavirus is the main cause of severe acute gastroenteritis in children in Africa. Monovalent human rotavirus vaccine (RV1) was added into Malawi's infant immunisation schedule on Oct 29, 2012. We aimed to assess the impact and effectiveness of RV1 on rotavirus gastroenteritis in the 2 y...

Subject

Observational study

Rotavirus

Rotavirus vaccine

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!