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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0199674&type=printable
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