Designing a vaccination strategy against dengue
In this work we propose a mathematical approach to estimate the dengue force of infection, the average age of dengue first infection, the optimum age to vaccinate children against dengue in a routine fashion and the optimum age interval to introduce the dengue vaccine in a mass vaccination campaign....
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
2012-10-01
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Series: | Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo |
Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652012000700008&lng=en&tlng=en |