"Herd immunity": A rough guide

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 911-916

  Fine, Paul ^a   Eames, Ken ^a   Heymann, David L ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; WART VIRUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HERD IMMUNITY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBELLA;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HERD; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 79953736779     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir007     Document Type: Article

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