Thesis
Control of typhoid fever: evaluating herd protection through public health use of typhoid VI polysaccharide vaccine
- Abstract:
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Typhoid fever remains an important public health problem globally. Cluster randomized effectiveness trials with typhoid Vi polysaccharide vaccine were conducted in Kolkata, India and Karachi, Pakistan, to provide evidence for vaccine introduction. While efficacy trials are limited to estimate vaccine's performance on the vaccine recipients, effectiveness trials consider the public health impact, notably the herd protection, or indirect effect, which can only be seen when vaccines are admin...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2011
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:12332
- Deposit date:
- 2015-10-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Ochiai, R
- Copyright date:
- 2011
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