Vaccination and clinical severity: Is the effectiveness of contact tracing and case isolation Hampered by past vaccination?

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 816-829

  Mizumoto, Kenji ^a,b   Ejima, Keisuke ^a,c   Yamamoto, Taro ^b   Nishiura, Hiroshi ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contact tracing; Epidemiology; Immunization; Mathematical model; Symptom

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMALLPOX; VACCINATION;

ARTICLE; CASE FINDING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL HISTORY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; SMALLPOX; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VACCINATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84874641713     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph10030816     Document Type: Article

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