Population-based surveillance for bacterial meningitis in the Dominican Republic: Implications for control by vaccination

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 549-554

  Gomez, E ^a   Peguero, M ^a   Sanchez, J ^b   Castellanos, P L ^c   Feris, J ^b   Pena C ^b   Brudzinski LaClaire, L ^d   Levine, O S ^d,e  

^a Centro Nacional de Control de Enfermedades Tropicales   (Dominican Republic)

^b School of Medicine   (Dominican Republic)

^c Pan American Health Organization   (Dominican Republic)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE;

AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CALCULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MONITORING; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PEDIATRICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGITIS, HAEMOPHILUS; POLICY MAKING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 0034489011     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268800004830     Document Type: Article

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