1956
DOI: 10.2307/4589446
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Continued High Incidence of Diphtheria in a Well-Immunized Community

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“…Por outro lado, a incidência de difteria é mais alta entre os segmentos populacio-Ao contrário da maioria das doenças bacterianas, a difteria é uma infecção que se caracteriza por acometer principalmente crianças pertencentes a faixa etária préescolar e escolar 4,9,14,18,23,26,28 .…”
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“…Por outro lado, a incidência de difteria é mais alta entre os segmentos populacio-Ao contrário da maioria das doenças bacterianas, a difteria é uma infecção que se caracteriza por acometer principalmente crianças pertencentes a faixa etária préescolar e escolar 4,9,14,18,23,26,28 .…”
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“…The decline in morbidity between 1930 and 1955 was significantly slower in the southern states than in the remainder of the U.S.A. (Moore &r Larsen, 1957). In one county of Georgia, for instance, there was no appreciable decline in disease incidence between 1935 and 1953, and an annual morbidity of about 47 cases per 100000 population was maintained despite an organized immunization programme (Murphy, Maley &;Dick, 1956). Local variations were also noted in mortality, such as-in Baltimore, where the case-fatality ratio dropped from 8 % to 4 % between 1920 and 1936 (Frost et at.…”
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confidence: 99%