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Predicting the Herd Immunity Threshold during an Outbreak: A Recursive Approach

BACKGROUND: The objective was to develop a novel algorithm that can predict, based on field survey data, the minimum vaccination coverage required to reduce the mean number of infections per infectious individual to less than one (the Outbreak Response Immunization Threshold or ORIT) from up to six...

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Autor principal: Georgette, Nathan T.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2613521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19132101
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004168