PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | diphtheria |
| Phenotype | C0041296|tuberculosis |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 23824555 | According to guidelines developed by world health organisation, we have computed the outcome variable “completely immunized” coded as ‘1’ if the child 12–23 months old has received a vaccination against tuberculosis (bcg), three doses of the diphtheria, whooping cough (pertussis), tetanus (dpt) vaccine, three doses of poliomyelitis (polio) vaccine (polio 0 is not included in the computation of outcome variable as per the who guideline [31]), and one dose of measles before reaching the age of 12 months and ‘0’, otherwise. |
| PubMedID- 24592593 | A child is considered fully vaccinated when she/he received a vaccination against tuberculosis (bcg), three doses of the diphtheria, whooping cough (pertussis) and tetanus (dpt) vaccine; three doses of the poliomyelitis (polio) vaccine; and one dose of the measles vaccine by the age of 12 months (table 1). |
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