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Fractional Dosing of Yellow Fever Vaccine to Extend Supply: A Modeling Study

BACKGROUND: The ongoing yellow fever (YF) epidemic in Angola strains the global vaccine supply, prompting WHO to adopt dose sparing for its vaccination campaign in Kinshasa in July–August 2016. Although a 5-fold fractional-dose vaccine is similar to standard-dose vaccine in safety and immunogenicity...

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Autores principales: Wu, Joseph T., Peak, Corey M., Leung, Gabriel M., Lipsitch, Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5161610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27837923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31838-4