Optimizing reactive responses to outbreaks of immunizing infections: Balancing case management and vaccination

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Klepac, Petra ^a   Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^b,c   Metcalf, C Jessica E ^d   Grenfell, Bryan T ^a,c,e  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BUDGET; CASE MANAGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG COST; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MEASLES; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VACCINATION;

ALGORITHMS; CASE MANAGEMENT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MASS VACCINATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PALLIATIVE CARE;

EID: 84865040713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041428     Document Type: Article

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