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. 2020 Jul 8;73(2):e410–e416. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa919

Table 1.

Characteristics of the Study Population by Vaccine Period

Pneumonia Hospitalizations Pneumonia Deaths
Prevaccine Period
(n = 2954)
Postvaccine Period
(n = 3989)
Prevaccine Period
(n = 97)
Postvaccine Period
(n = 104)
n % n % n % n %
Hospital site
 Francistown 1359 46 1835 46 34 35 46 44
 Gaborone 1034 35 1316 33 39 40 34 33
 Maun 561 19 838 21 24 25 24 23
Age
 1–11 m 1568 53 2178 55 84 87 73 70
 12–59 m 1386 47 1811 45 13 13 31 30
Sex
 Female 1300 44 1755 44 48 49 52 50
 Male 1654 56 2234 56 49 51 52 50
HIV exposure status
 HIV-exposed 561 19 1197 30 21 22 49 47
 HIV-unexposed 620 21 2393 60 17 18 50 48
 Unknown 1773 60 399 10 59 60 5 5

The prevaccine period corresponds to January 2009 to October 2010 and the postvaccine period (after introduction of Hib vaccine and PCV-13) corresponds to January 2013 to December 2017.

Abbreviations: Hib, Haemophilus influenzae type b; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; PCV-13, 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.