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Real-World Effectiveness of Pentavalent Rotavirus Vaccine Among Bedouin and Jewish Children in Southern Israel.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 May 2016
Leshem Eyal, Givon-Lavi Noga, Tate Jacqueline E, Greenberg David, Parashar Umesh D, Dagan Ron
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BACKGROUND: Pentavalent rotavirus vaccine (RV5) was introduced into the Israeli National Immunization Program in January 2011. We determined RV5 vaccine effectiveness (VE) in southern Israel, a region characterized by 2 distinct populations: Bedouins living in a low- to middle-income, semirural setting, and Jews living in a high-income, urban setting. METHODS: We enrolled vaccine-eligible children who visited the...
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