Impact on Epidemic Measles of Vaccination Campaigns Triggered by Disease Outbreaks or Serosurveys: A Modeling Study

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Lessler, Justin ^a   Metcalf, C Jessica E ^b,c   Cutts, Felicity T ^d   Grenfell, Bryan T ^b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ARTICLE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIC; MARKOV CHAIN; MASS IMMUNIZATION; NEPAL; NIGER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; STRATEGIC PLANNING; YEMEN; ZAMBIA;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS VACCINATION; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEPAL; NIGER; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; STRATEGIC PLANNING; YEMEN; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84994236187     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002144     Document Type: Article

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