Estimating the incidence of rotavirus infection in children from India and Malawi from serial anti-rotavirus IgA titres.

Accurate estimates of rotavirus incidence in infants are crucial given disparities in rotavirus vaccine effectiveness from low-income settings. Sero-surveys are a pragmatic means of estimating incidence however serological data is prone to misclassification. This study used mixture models to estimat...

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Main Authors: Aisleen Bennett, Nico Nagelkerke, Ellen Heinsbroek, Prasanna S Premkumar, Małgorzata Wnęk, Gagandeep Kang, Neil French, Nigel A Cunliffe, Naor Bar-Zeev, Ben Lopman, Miren Iturriza-Gomara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5747462?pdf=render