Vaccination against rubella: Analysis of the temporal evolution of the age-dependent force of infection and the effects of different contact patterns

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 5 1, 2003, Pages

  Amaku, M ^a   Coutinho, F A B ^a   Azevedo, R S ^a   Burattini, M N ^a   Lopez, L F ^a   Massad, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMMUNIZATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VACCINES; VIRUSES;

AGE DEPENDENT FORCE; INFECTION; RUBELLA; SUSCEPTIBLE INFECTED RECOVERED; VACCINATION;

DRUG THERAPY;

EID: 42749101855     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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