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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| Main Authors: | Veronika I Zarnitsyna, Irina Bulusheva, Andreas Handel, Ira M Longini, M Elizabeth Halloran, Rustom Antia |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0199674&type=printable |
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