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Vaccination and herd immunity to infectious diseases.

Publication date: 2015-11-25

Journal: Nature

Keywords: Age Factors, Communicable Disease Control, Communicable Diseases, immunology, Developing Countries, Disease Outbreaks, prevention & control, Humans, Models, Theoretical, Periodicity, Vaccination

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An understanding of the relationship between the transmission dynamics of infectious agents and herd immunity provides a template for the design of effective control programmes based on mass immunization. Mathematical models of the spread and persistence of infection provide important insights into the problem of how best to protect the community against disease.

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PubMed ID:: 3906406

DOI:: 10.1038/318323a0

ScienceOpen disciplines: Chemistry

Keywords: Age Factors,Communicable Disease Control,Communicable Diseases,immunology,Developing Countries,Disease Outbreaks,prevention & control,Humans,Models, Theoretical,Periodicity,Vaccination

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