Strategies for Coordination of a Serosurvey in Parallel with an Immunization Coverage Survey.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
; 93(2): 416-424, 2015 Aug.
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| ID: mdl-26055737
A community-based immunization coverage survey is the standard way to estimate effective vaccination delivery to a target population in a region. Accompanying serosurveys can provide objective measures of protective immunity against vaccine-preventable diseases but pose considerable challenges with respect to specimen collection and preservation and community compliance. We performed serosurveys coupled to immunization coverage surveys in three administrative districts (woredas) in rural Ethiopia. Critical to the success of this effort were serosurvey equipment and supplies, team composition, and tight coordination with the coverage survey. Application of these techniques to future studies may foster more widespread use of serosurveys to derive more objective assessments of vaccine-derived seroprotection and monitor and compare the performance of immunization services in different districts of a country.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Regionalización
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Inmunización
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Programas de Inmunización
Tipo de estudio:
Qualitative_research
Límite:
Humans
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Infant
País/Región como asunto:
Africa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Am J Trop Med Hyg
Año:
2015
Tipo del documento:
Article
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos