title: Epidemiological evaluation of oral polio vaccine efficacy in Delhi.
abstract: Forty seven cases of poliomyelitis and 94 controls were studied for immunization status. Unmatched analysis with one control per case and two controls per case was done to find out the ratio of the odds of immunization in diseased individuals as compared with the nondiseased (odds ratio). This ratio (OR) was used further to calculate oral polio vaccine efficacy. OPV efficacy was found to be 93% with 95% confidence limits of 75-98%.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Communicable Diseases, New Delhi.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bora
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Chawla
authors.forename: N C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Bilochi
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Kapur
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Dhaon
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D016017:Odds Ratio; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011055:Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral; D014611:Vaccination / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D011055:Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral