Dynamical complexity in age-structured models of the transmission of the measles virus: Epidemiological implications at high levels of vaccine uptake

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 101-130

  Ferguson, Neil M ^a   Nokes, D James ^a,b   Anderson, Roy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATHEMATICS; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

MEASLES VIRUS;

EID: 0030561585     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-5564(96)00127-7     Document Type: Article

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