Finding and removing highly connected individuals using suboptimal vaccines

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Vidondo, Beatriz ^a   Schwehm, Markus ^b   Bühlmann, Andrea ^a   Eichner, Martin ^c  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

^b EXPLOSYS GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALLPOX VACCINE; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; SMALLPOX; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VACCINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 84857682895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-51     Document Type: Article

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