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A population-level analysis of armed conflict and diphtheria at the subnational level in the WHO African Region 2017-2024
2024-12-20
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<h4>Background</h4> Diphtheria has been re-emerging around the world at alarming rates, raising concerns about emergency preparedness when global supplies of life-saving diphtheria antitoxin are insufficient. Outbreaks have occurred in areas with suboptimal coverage of the three-dose diphtheria tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) vaccine and regions experiencing conflict, but systematic studies assessing the association...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1ab2bdc9-faa7-5234-a08a-966612b421a3
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.12.18.24319262
