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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Vol. 182, No. 11 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv199 Advance Access publication: November 14, 2015

Practice of Epidemiology A New Method for Estimating the Coverage of Mass Vaccination Campaigns Against Poliomyelitis From Surveillance Data

K. M. O’Reilly*, A. Cori, E. Durry, M. Z. Wadood, A. Bosan, R. B. Aylward, and N. C. Grassly * Correspondence to Dr. K. M. O’Reilly, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, St. Mary’s Campus, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, United Kingdom (e-mail: [email protected]).

Initially submitted July 17, 2014; accepted for publication July 16, 2015.

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