Journal article
Understanding the impact of Hib conjugate vaccine on transmission, immunity and disease in the United Kingdom.
- Abstract:
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A rise in invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infections occurred 8 years after vaccine introduction in the United Kingdom. Aspects of Hib vaccine delivery unique to the United Kingdom have been implicated. The authors developed a fully age-structured deterministic susceptible-infected-resistant-susceptible mathematical model, expressed as a set of partial differential equations, to better understand the causes of declining vaccine effectiveness. We also investigated the consequences...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Epidemiology and infection
- Volume:
- 136
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 800-812
- Publication date:
- 2008-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-4409
- ISSN:
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0950-2688
- Source identifiers:
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209392
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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- pubs:209392
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2008
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