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Volume 27, Number 3—March 2021
Dispatch

Addressing Reemergence of Diphtheria among Adolescents through Program Integration in India

Kiran Kumar MaramrajComments to Author , M.L. Kavitha Latha, Rukma Reddy, Samir V. Sodha, Suneet Kaur, Tanzin Dikid, Sukrutha Reddy, S.K. Jain, and Sujeet Kumar Singh
Author affiliations: National Centre for Disease Control, New Delhi, India (K.K. Maramraj, S. Kaur, T. Dikid, S.K. Jain, S.K. Singh); Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases, Hyderabad, India (M.L.K. Latha); State Health Department, Telangana, India (R. Reddy, S. Reddy); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (S.V. Sodha)

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Table 1

Immunization status of 99 study patients with confirmed diphtheria cases, Telangana, India, 2017*

Diphtheria vaccine Based on card information only, no. (%) Based on card information or parental recall, no. (%)
Pentavalent 1 or DTP1 23 (23) 55 (56)
Pentavalent 2 or DTP2 23 (23) 53 (54)
Pentavalent 3 or DTP3 23 (23) 52 (53)
DTP booster 1 21 (21) 44 (44)
DTP booster 2† 17 (18) 35 (36)

*DTP, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine.
†Denominator for DTP booster 2 = 96; three 4-year-olds were excluded because they were not eligible for DTP booster 2 based on age.

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