Age groups and spread of influenza: Implications for vaccination strategy

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hsieh, Ying Hen ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COMPARTMENT MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GROUPS BY AGE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN; VACCINATION;

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TAIWAN; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951539199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-106     Document Type: Article

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