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International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(4):1044-1050; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl100
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association

Infectious Diseases

Relationship between neighbourhood-level killed oral cholera vaccine coverage and protective efficacy: evidence for herd immunity

Michael Emch1,*, Mohammad Ali2, Jin-Kyung Park2, Mohammad Yunus3, David A Sack and John D Clemens2

1 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA.
2 International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea.
3 ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

* Corresponding author. Department of Geography, Saunders Hall, Campus Box 3220, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3220, USA. E-mail: emch{at}email.unc.edu

Objectives The effectiveness of vaccines in populations must consider both direct and indirect protection. This study reanalyses data from a large individually randomized oral cholera vaccine trial that was conducted in rural Bangladesh from 1985 to 1990. A recent analysis of the results of that trial showed that the proportion of people in household clusters who received the vaccine was inversely related to placebo incidence during the first year of surveillance, which was attributed to herd immunity.

Methods In this study we measure the relationship between neighbourhood-level oral cholera vaccine coverage and protective efficacy (PE) during a 2 year follow-up period, controlling for known effect modifiers. We link trial data to a household geographic information system to facilitate the neighbourhood-level analysis.

Findings Neighbourhood-level PE can be partially explained by vaccine coverage after adjusting for ecological variables.

Conclusions The inverse relationship between vaccine coverage and efficacy illustrates that people living in high-coverage areas may be indirectly protected from cholera because people living around them are vaccinated.

Keywords Vaccine trial, herd immunity, GIS, neighbourhood analysis

Accepted 11 April 2006


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