Decline in diarrhea mortality and admissions after routine childhood rotavirus immunization in Brazil: a time-series analysis.

Decline in diarrhea mortality and admissions after routine childhood rotavirus immunization in Brazil: a time-series analysis.

BACKGROUND: In 2006, Brazil began routine immunization of infants <15 wk of age with a single-strain rotavirus vaccine. We evaluated whether the rotavirus vaccination program was associated with declines in childhood diarrhea deaths and hospital admissions by monitoring disease trends before and...

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Main Authors: Greice Madeleine Ikeda do Carmo, Catherine Yen, Jennifer Cortes, Alessandra Araújo Siqueira, Wanderson Kleber de Oliveira, Juan José Cortez-Escalante, Ben Lopman, Brendan Flannery, Lucia Helena de Oliveira, Eduardo Hage Carmo, Manish Patel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3079643?pdf=render

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