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The Impact of Model Building on the Transmission Dynamics under Vaccination: Observable (Symptom-Based) versus Unobservable (Contagiousness-Dependent) Approaches

BACKGROUND: The way we formulate a mathematical model of an infectious disease to capture symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission can greatly influence the likely effectiveness of vaccination in the presence of vaccine effect for preventing clinical illness. The present study aims to assess the im...

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Autores principales: Ejima, Keisuke, Aihara, Kazuyuki, Nishiura, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3625221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23593507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062062