Estimating the impact of vaccination using age-time-dependent incidence rates of hepatitis B

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 341-351

  Hens, Niel ^a   Aerts, M ^a   Shkedy, Z ^a   Kung'u Kimani, P ^b   Kojouhorova, M ^c   Van Damme, P ^d   Beutels, Ph ^d  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Kenya Institute of Management   (Kenya)

^c NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES   (Bulgaria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

AGE; ARTICLE; BULGARIA; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VACCINATION;

BULGARIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 39049091339     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807008692     Document Type: Article

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