Estimating vaccine effects on transmission of infection from household outbreak data

Biometrics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 467-475

  Becker, Niels G ^a   Britton, Tom ^b   O'Neill, Philip D ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design of vaccine trials; Household outbreaks; Infectivity; Smallpox; Susceptibility to infection; Transmission of infection; Vaccine efficacy

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

% REDUCTIONS; DESIGN OF VACCINE TRIAL; HOUSEHOLD DATUM; HOUSEHOLD OUTBREAK; INFECTIVITY; MEAN REDUCTIONS; SMALLPOX; SUSCEPTIBILITY TO INFECTION; TRANSMISSION OF INFECTION; VACCINE EFFICACIES;

VACCINES;

SMALLPOX VACCINE; VACCINE;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; VACCINATION;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION; SMALLPOX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VACCINATION;

VARIOLA VIRUS;

EID: 0042835660     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1541-0420.00056     Document Type: Article

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