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Volume 24, Number 7—July 2018
Perspective

Integrated Serologic Surveillance of Population Immunity and Disease Transmission

Benjamin F. ArnoldComments to Author , Heather M. Scobie, Jeffrey W. Priest, and Patrick J. Lammie
Author affiliations: University of California, Berkeley, California, USA (B.F. Arnold); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (H.M. Scobie, J.W. Priest, P.J. Lammie); Task Force for Global Health, Atlanta (P.J. Lammie)

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Figure 1

Tetanus toxoid antibody response of 2,150 women, by age and reproductive status, Cambodia, 2012. Specimens were collected from women who had (parous) and had not (nulliparous) previously given birth in a nationally representative immunization coverage survey (23) and measured by using the Luminex platform (Luminex Corporation, Austin, TX, USA). A) Mean antibody response. B) Percentage and 95% CIs of women seroprotected (>100 MFI) (23). We estimated age-dependent means and seroprevalence using

Figure 1. Tetanus toxoid antibody response of 2,150 women, by age and reproductive status, Cambodia, 2012. Specimens were collected from women who had (parous) and had not (nulliparous) previously given birth in a nationally representative immunization coverage survey (23) and measured by using the Luminex platform (Luminex Corporation, Austin, TX, USA). A) Mean antibody response. B) Percentage and 95% CIs of women seroprotected (>100 MFI) (23). We estimated age-dependent means and seroprevalence using previously described methods (24). Data set and computational notebook are available through the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/2kr8b). MFI – bg, mean fluorescence intensity minus background.

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