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Volume 20, Number 11—November 2014
Dispatch

Vaccine-Induced Waning of Haemophilus influenzae Empyema and Meningitis, Angola

Heikki Peltola, Tuula PelkonenComments to Author , Luis Bernardino, Lurdes Monteiro1, Silvia da Conceição Silvestre, Elizabete Anjos, Manuel Leite Cruzeiro, Anne Pitkäranta, and Irmeli Roine
Author affiliations: Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (H. Peltola, T. Pelkonen, A. Pitkäranta); David Bernardino Children’s Hospital, Luanda, Angola (T. Pelkonen, L. Bernardino, S. da Conceição Silvestre, E. Anjos, M.L. Cruzeiro); National Health Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (L. Monteiro); University Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile (I. Roine)

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Figure 2

Proportional decrease in Haemophilus influenzae isolates starting in 2007 shows the effect of Hib vaccination launched in June 2006. Numbers above the bars indicate no. positive samples/no. cultured cultured samples (%) for all empyema and meningitis cases combined. Hib, H. influenzae type b.

Figure 2. Proportional decrease in Haemophilus influenzae isolates starting in 2007 shows the effect of Hib vaccination launched in June 2006. Numbers above the bars indicate no. positive samples/no. cultured cultured samples (%) for all empyema and meningitis cases combined. Hib, H. influenzae type b.

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1Current affiliation: University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal.

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