Volume 10, Number 7—July 2004

Research

Rapid Assessment Tool for Haemophilus influenzae type b Disease in Developing Countries¹

Daniel R. Feikin* , Christopher B. Nelson†, James P. Watt*‡, Ezzeddine Mohsni§, Jay D. Wenger†, and Orin S. Levine*‡

Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; ‡Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; §World Health Organization, Cairo, Egypt

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Figure 3

Figure 3. The under-5 mortality rate method for calculating Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease rate by using the Hib rapid assessment tool. White boxes are data input points and gray boxes are disease rate estimates.

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¹Some of the content of this manuscript has previously been presented in a document on the Web site of the World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/vaccines-documents/DocsPDF01/www625.pdf).

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