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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 5.
Published in final edited form as: Expert Rev Vaccines. 2017 Sep 4;16(10):987–995. doi: 10.1080/14760584.2017.1371595

Table 2.

Clinical trials of vaccine efficacy and post-introduction evaluations of vaccine effectiveness for prevention of moderate-to-severe rotavirus diarrhea in African countries.

Country Study type Vaccine Vaccine effectiveness mean (95% CI) Reference
Lower child mortality rate group (<67 deaths per 1000 live births)
 Botswana Effectiveness, post-introduction Rotarix 54% (23–73) Gastañaduy [35]
 Kenya Efficacy, clinical trial RotaTeq 64% (−6–90) Armah [9]
 Rwanda Effectiveness, post-introduction RotaTeq 80% (28–94) Ngabo [36]
 South Africa Effectiveness, post-introduction Rotarix 57% (40–68) Groome [37]
 South Africa Efficacy, clinical trial Rotarix 77% (56–88) Madhi [8]
 Tanzania Effectiveness, post-introduction Rotarix 57% (14–78) Abeid [38]
Higher child mortality rate group (≥67 deaths per 1000 live births)
 Ghana Effectiveness, post-introduction Rotarix 18% (−81–63) Armah [39]
 Ghana Efficacy, clinical trial RotaTeq 56% (28–73) Armah [9]
 Malawi Effectiveness, post-introduction Rotarix 64% (24–83) Bar Zeev [40]
 Malawi Effectiveness, post-introduction Rotarix 58% (20–78) Bar Zeev [26]
 Malawi Efficacy, clinical trial Rotarix 49% (19–68) Madhi [8]
 Mali Efficacy, clinical trial RotaTeq 18% (−23–45) Armah [9]
 Zambia Effectiveness, post-introduction Rotarix 56% (−34–86) Beres [41]