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Persistence of Diphtheria, Hyderabad, India, 2003–2006

Sailaja Bitragunta*, Manoj V. Murhekar*, Yvan J. Hutin*, Padmanabha P. Penumur†, and Mohan D. Gupte*

Author affiliations: *National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, India; †Fever Hospital, Hyderabad, India;

Average yearly attack rate of diphtheria by age and sex, Hyderabad, India, 2003–2006

Demographic characteristics	No. cases, 2003–2006	Average population, 2003–2006	Annual attack rate/100,000 population
Age, y
<1	8	81,050	2
2–4	116	240,450	12
5–9	455	415,673	27
10–14	530	455,426	29
15–19	431	450,408	24
20–44	1,054	1,583,569	17
>45	91	632,964	4
Sex
Male	1,153	1,983,960	15
Female	1,532	1,875,580	20
Religion
Non-Muslim	811	2,270,695	9
Muslim	1,874	1,588,845	29
Total	2,685	3,859,540	17

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