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Intermediate levels of vaccination coverage may minimize seasonal influenza outbreaks

For most pathogens, vaccination reduces the spread of the infection and total number of cases; thus, public policy usually advocates maximizing vaccination coverage. We use simple mathematical models to explore how this may be different for pathogens, such as influenza, which exhibit strain variatio...

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Autores principales: Zarnitsyna, Veronika I., Bulusheva, Irina, Handel, Andreas, Longini, Ira M., Halloran, M. Elizabeth, Antia, Rustom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6019388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29944709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199674