Vaccination coverage and preventable diseases in Peru: Reflections on the first diphtheria case in two decades during the midst of COVID-19 pandemic

Dear Editor, Peru has one of the most comprehensive immunization programs in the Latin-America, financed 100% by public resources under regulation of the Ministry of Health (MINSA) [1]. [...]we performed purely spatial scan statistical analysis in Kulldorff's SaTScan™ version 9.6 to identify hi...

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Published in:Travel medicine and infectious disease 2021-03, Vol.40, p.101956-101956, Article 101956
Main Authors: Mezones-Holguin, Edward, Al-kassab-Córdova, Ali, Maguiña, Jorge L., Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coronaviruses
Correspondence
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 - prevention & control
Delivery of Health Care
Diphtheria
Diphtheria - prevention & control
Disease control
Epidemics
Humans
Immunization
Infectious diseases
Latin America
Pandemics
Pandemics - prevention & control
Peru
Peru - epidemiology
Preventable diseases
SARS-CoV-2 - isolation & purification
Spatial analysis
Statistical analysis
Statistical methods
Tetanus
Travel medicine
Vaccination
Vaccination Coverage - statistics & numerical data
Vaccination Coverage - trends
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases - epidemiology
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases - prevention & control
Vaccines
Whooping cough
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Summary:Dear Editor, Peru has one of the most comprehensive immunization programs in the Latin-America, financed 100% by public resources under regulation of the Ministry of Health (MINSA) [1]. [...]we performed purely spatial scan statistical analysis in Kulldorff's SaTScan™ version 9.6 to identify high-risk areas of low DPT-HepB-Hib vaccination coverage in 2015 and 2019, based on DHS data. [...]it has been described that there are geographical clusters of vulnerable areas of vaccine-preventable diseases [5].
ISSN:1477-8939
1873-0442
DOI:10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101956