Estimation of measles vaccine coverage needed to prevent transmission in schools

Pediatrics International

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 464-468

  Mori, Nobuo ^a,b   Ohkusa, Yasushi ^a   Ohyama, Takaaki ^a   Tanaka Taya, Keiko ^a   Taniguchi, Kiyosu ^a   Kobayashi, John M ^a   Doy, Mikio ^c   Okabe, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Ibaraki Prefectural Institute of Public Health   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basic reproductive number; Stochastic model; Vaccine effectiveness efficacy

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPRING; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; VACCINATION;

EID: 50249090099     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2008.02592.x     Document Type: Article

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